JENN SHAPLAND
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 Longer Essays 


You Are Glowing with Crystal White Light! New England Review, 2021


​Getting Over My Cleansing Obsession in the Desert Outside Online, 2019

Field Report: El Paso + Juárez" Southwest Contemporary, 2019. Winner, Rabkin Prize for Art Journalism 2019.


​A Walking Tour of the End of the World The Magazine June 2017

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Illness Is Metaphor Tin House spring 2017. Finalist, Keene Prize for Literature.

Thirteen Ways of Moving to the Desert Pastelegram fall 2016. Winner, Rabkin Prize for Art Journalism 2019.

​Finders, Keepers Tin House ​fall 2015. Winner, Pushcart Prize 2017. Finalist, Keene Prize for Literature.

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The Tracks The Lifted Brow 
and Lit Hub fall 2015

Mother Matter: Transcorporeality in Carole Maso and Joan Didion Contemporary Women’s Writing 2015

'The Human Heart is a Chump': Cataloging The Pale King The Millions 2012

 Shorter Essays 


​Butter, Sugar, and a Tablespoon of Grief The New York Times, December 2020

Unitard Guernica, June 22, 2020


I Just Want to Look Like Greta Garbo: On Icons Autostraddle.com, February 20, 2020

Cataloguing Carson McCullers’ Clothes: Long Coats, Vests, and Gender Fluidity an excerpt of My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, Lit Hub, February 18, 2020

Seven Biographies that Are Secretly Memoirs Electric Literature, February 3, 2020

The Closeting of Carson McCullers, an excerpt from My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, The Paris Review Daily, February 3, 2020

Chick-fil-A, Organ, and Blue Chair, excerpts from My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, Southwest Contemporary, February 2020

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Make Money From Again The Paris Review Daily, January 28, 2020

An excerpt of My Autobiography of Carson McCullers O, The OprahMagazine, Dec 2019

New Mexico Women column Southwest Contemporary/The Magazine, 2018-2019. Honorable Mention, 2019 Folio Awards.

The Freelancer's Guide to Deductions McSweeneys Internet Tendency, 2019

The Life-Changing Magic of Keeping Absolutely Everything McSweeneys Internet Tendency, 2019

​"Incendio!": On Zadie Smith Essay Daily, 2018 

​Nancy Holt, Sun Tunnels (1976), Near Lucin, UT The Magazine, ​2018

​Maybe I Just Needed to Kill and Google Your Feelings 
The Arkansas International issue 3, fall 2017

My Vagina and the Vaginas of My Friends Minola review spring 2017

Unpacking My Lesbian Library The Open Bar 2016

Unofficial Inquiries from the Archives of Carson McCullers, Gertrude Stein, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Electric Literature 2016

​A Lydia Davis Story NANOFiction vol. 8 no. 1, fall 2014

Carson McCullers, Style Icon Cultural Compass 2013


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  • Essays
  • Thin Skin
  • My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
  • Events
  • Interviews
  • Bio
  • Contact