Books and Writers Editor

Jenny Shank

Fiction writer, book devourer, dinosaur lover, Denver-raised partly-cloudy Boulderite.

	Ms. Shank

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 and earn an M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Colorado. She was the Denver/Boulder A.V. Club Editor of The Onion for six years, and her book reviews have appeared in Rocky Mountain News, Dallas Morning News, and Boulder Daily Camera. She is the author of the novel The Ringer and she's a Pushcart Prize-nominated short story writer whose work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Alaska Quarterly Review, Poets & Writers, Michigan Quarterly Review, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, CutBank, Bust, Image, Calyx and other publications. One of her stories was listed among the “Notable Essays of the Year" in the Best American Essays. She lives in Boulder with her husband, daughter, and son, and she lives online at JennyShank.com.