Books and Writers Editor
Jenny Shank
Pop culture obsessive, fiction writer, book devourer, dinosaur lover, DPS education survivor and partly-cloudy Boulderite.
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Jenny Shank grew up in Denver and left Colorado only long enough to earn her B.A. from the University of Notre Dame. Although her skills as a crack book report writer set off a bidding war among potential employers, she opted to stay in school long enough to earn an M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Colorado. She served as the Denver/Boulder A.V. Club Editor of The Onion from 2000 until the 2006 birth of her daughter, and her book reviews appear in the Rocky Mountain News and the Daily Camera. She’s a Pushcart Prize-nominated fiction writer whose work has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, CutBank, Weber Studies, Bust, Image, Calyx, Eureka Literary Magazine, Sport Literate, and other publications, and one of her stories was listed among the “Notable Essays of the Year" in the Best American Essays. Her novel-in-progress was a recent semi-finalist for the James Jones First Novel Fellowship. She lives in Boulder with her husband and daughter.
