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Originally from Virginia and transplanted to the Midwest, Jenniey now lives in America. In addition to her day job, she teaches writing and serves as a reader and editor for various lit journals and authors. She holds an MFA and is currently working on several writing projects.

Her work on a hybrid nonfiction/poetry/visual manuscript (a series of writing experiments focused on the theme of displacement) received the support of a Sustainable Arts Foundation award. She has also received support and/or recognition from PEN America and the Pushcart Prize.

You can find her recent work at the following places:

• Insomnia & Sleep Notes (nonfiction) online at Shenandoah (Volume 70, Number 2)
• Our Belmont (nonfiction) printed in Mid-American Review
• sometimes, hoarders (hybrid CNF/poetry) online at Waxwing Literary Journal
• Mike and Evan at the (Beginning) of the World (very short fiction) online at wigleaf, finalist for Mythic Picnic Prize
  • and the postcard: Dear Wigleaf: Dispatch from Canada
• A Yellow Bowl (poetry) printed in Gargoyle Magazine (40th anniversary #65, 2017)
• Come Home (poetry/erasure) online at DIAGRAM (issue 17.1)
• Kisha with the Beads in her Hair—Belmont, 1983 (CNF) printed in The Austin Review (issue 5)
• We Are Persistence Runners (dystopian fiction) online at Electric Lit Recommended Reading (issue 217). Special Mention in The Pushcart Prize XLI anthology.
• American Family c. 1985 (poetry-CNF/erasure) online at Nashville Review (issue 19)
• Now We Live in Town (CNF) printed in Slice Magazine (issue 18: Enemies)
• The Incredible Elk versus Sally P. Squirrel (CNF) online at The Summerset Review
• We were not allowed to keep them (poetry) online at HOOT
• Gertrude is Gay (fiction) printed in Gargoyle Magazine (issue 59)
• study, nine (poetry) online at elimae
• At the park across the street from where Jane lives (unspecified) online at New World Writing
• The Thing in Sharon’s Bedroom (an illustrated sex toy mystery) online at The Rumpus
• Truths about Suicidal Women (unspecified) online at Alice Blue Review
• The Boy and the Palm Reader (fiction co-written with Nick Kocz) online at The Collagist
• Into the Rainforest (fiction) online at Annalemma
• Lessons in Death and Drowning (CNF) printed in Slice Magazine (issue 7: Villains)

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