About me
Jenny Shank's short story collection, Mixed Company, won the George Garrett Fiction Prize and the Colorado Book Award and her novel, The Ringer, won the High Plains Book Award in fiction.
Jenny's stories, essays, satire, and reviews have appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Prairie Schooner, Alaska Quarterly Review, Missouri Review, McSweeney's, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Poets & Writers, Bust Magazine, The Guardian, Santa Monica Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Image, Barrelhouse, The Toast and The Rumpus. Her writing has been anthologized in The McSweeney's Book of Politics and Musicals, Dear McSweeney's, Love in the Time of Time's Up: A Short Fiction Anthology, Reading Colorado: A Literary Road Guide and We Can See Into Another Place: Mile High Writers on Social Justice.
One of her stories was listed among the "Notable Essays of the Year" in Best American Essays and another received Special Mention in the Pushcart Prize anthology. She has won writing awards from the Center of the American West, the Montana Committee for the Humanities, the Society of Professional Journalists, SouthWest Writers, and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund.
Jenny has published over a thousand book reviews and author interviews in places such as Dallas Morning News, High Country News, PBS MediaShift, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, and America magazine. She is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and volunteers on the committees for the John Leonard Prize for Best First Book and the Southwest Books of the Year. Jenny was the Denver/Boulder Editor of The Onion A.V. Club for six years, and for four years she was the Books & Writers Editor of New West, which was named "Best Literary Blog" in the Westword Best of Denver issue. She was a Mullin Scholar in writing at the University of Southern California. She has taught creative writing at the Mile High MFA at Regis University, the University of Colorado, and the University of Denver.
