Jenny Shank

Jenny Shank's novel, The Ringer, won the High Plains Book Award. She teaches in the Mile High MFA at Regis University in Denver, and her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, McSweeney's, The Guardian, and the Los Angeles Times.

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I’m Doing a Reverse Marie Kondo on My Life

The government shutdown is forcing me to pare back the things that give me joy.
- Jenny Shank
- January 23, 2019
Reuters

From Boulder, Colorado: Notes on a Thousand-Year Flood

A resident recollects the wet and fearful days at the center of a historic natural disaster.
- Jenny Shank
- September 20, 2013

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Jenny Shank

I’m Doing a Reverse Marie Kondo on My Life

From Boulder, Colorado: Notes on a Thousand-Year Flood