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Jenn Shapland is a writer living in New Mexico. My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, her genre-bending first book, was a finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction and won the Lambda Literary Award, among other honors. Her most recent book, Thin Skin, was a Time, Publishers Weekly, and New York Public Library best book of 2023. Shapland's essays have appeared in New England Review, the New York Times, Guernica, and Tin House, and have been awarded a Pushcart Prize and the Rabkin Award. Her research and writing have been supported by High Desert Test Sites, the Howard Foundation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Yaddo, and other organizations. She works as an archivist for a visual artist. |
 Photo by Brad Trone 2022
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A smattering of interviews:
Jenn Shapland on the Need for “Thin Skin” The Nation
On Rebecca, Frog and Toad, and Queer Women in Fiction and Film Bookmarks
Sentence by Sentence: Jo Ann Beard on how she found the deep imaginative spaces of her new essay collection Bookforum
Cracking the Codes: Jenn Shapland with Jeannie Vanasco BOMB Magazine
Queering the Archive Bookforum
Other People podcast with Brad Listi
Kirkus Reviews, "Jenn Shapland Claims Carson McCullers as a Queer Writer," interview with Linda Simon
Jenn Shapland on the Need for “Thin Skin” The Nation
On Rebecca, Frog and Toad, and Queer Women in Fiction and Film Bookmarks
Sentence by Sentence: Jo Ann Beard on how she found the deep imaginative spaces of her new essay collection Bookforum
Cracking the Codes: Jenn Shapland with Jeannie Vanasco BOMB Magazine
Queering the Archive Bookforum
Other People podcast with Brad Listi
Kirkus Reviews, "Jenn Shapland Claims Carson McCullers as a Queer Writer," interview with Linda Simon