Jenny Shank

Jenny Shank grew up in Denver, Colorado, and earned degrees from the University of Notre Dame and the University of Colorado. Her short story collection, MIXED COMPANY, won the George Garrett Fiction Prize and will be published by Texas Review Press on October 15, 2021. Her novel, THE RINGER, won the High Plains Book Award in Fiction and was a finalist for the Reading The West Award.

Her stories, essays, satire, and reviews have appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Los Angeles Times, McSweeney's, Prairie Schooner, Alaska Quarterly Review, Barrelhouse, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Bust, Dallas Morning News and High Country News. One of her stories was listed among the "Notable Essays of the Year" in the Best American Essays and another received a Special Mention in the Pushcart Prize anthology.

She was the Denver/Boulder Editor of The Onion A.V. Club and the Books & Writers Editor of NewWest.Net/Books, 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 and teaches writing in the Mile High MFA program at Regis University and Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver. She lives in person in Boulder, Colorado and online at www.jennyshank.com.