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Amy Lou Jenkins
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| Latest News:
Amy's book Every Natural Fact: Five
Seasons of Open-Air Parenting
will be released by Holy Cow! Press in
June of 2010.
Read Amy's new Column:Green Living Examiner.
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Amy
developed a love of anthologies while living the busy life of a wife,
mother, nurse, and writer. Anthologies were a way to find the best of a
genre or theme, or an introduction to a style of writing. While remaining a
fan of compilations, her love of
literature grew beyond anthologies. Amy put her nursing career on hold, earned her MFA in Literature and
Creative Writing from Bennington College. She primarily writes
literary nonfiction and is held captive by literature of place. Her
work has been published in Earth Island Journal, Grit, SportLiterate,
Home Cooking, MetroParent and dozens of other parenting journals, and
scads of national print and web publications.
Her series of braided essays about walking natural landscapes with her son
have recently placed in several national writing contests and have been published
in The Flint Hills Review, Literal Latte, The Florida
Review, and Rosebud. Amy also teaches writing at Carroll College
and writes a quarterly review of books
and film for the Wisconsin and other Midwest Sierra Club
publications.
| Some of Amy's favorite authors/books in no particular order |
Aldo Leopold
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Recent Writing Awards and Honors listed in year awarded:
2008 Mesa Refuge Writing Fellowship
2008 Ellis Henerson Outdoor Writing Award: Second Place, Honorable Mention
2008 Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, 2008 Contests in Nonfiction: Finalist
2008 Santa Fe Writers Project Annual Literary Awards: Finalist
2007 XJ
Kennedy Award For Creativ
e Nonfiction by
Rosebud: Runner up
2007 Ellis/Henderson Outdoor Writing Awards: Second Place, Honorable Mention
2006 Florida Review annual essay contest: First runner up
2006 Flint Hills Review annual essay contest :First Runner Up
2006 Literal Latte' annual essay contest: Second Place
2003 Essay Annual writing award WRRA: First Place
Authored and presented an ongoing six session class Alverno College Telesis Institute. Also authored and presented The Next Step writing workshop at the Spring Writers Festival.
Authored the workshop, Customer Service in Health Care and presented throughout the Midwest for the U.S.
Articles/essays published in The Flint Hills Review, The Bennington Review, Inkpot, Home Cooking, Cappers, Big Apple Parent, Wisconsin Academy Review, Western New York Family, The Christian Reader, Home Cooking, Generations, MetroParent, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Shepherds Express Metro, Washington Families, Inscriptions, Blue Moon, The New Colonialist, Earth Island Journal, The Florida Review, Rosebud, SportLiterate, Grit, and many more.
Speaker: has read essays on Wisconsin and Alaska public radio.
Lecturer: Carroll College Writing Instructor; Alverno College Great Lakes Writers Workshop and Telisis.
Columnist for Generations Magazine, Green Living Examiner, and The Muir View
Corporate writer for newsletters, profiles, policies, public
relations, and more.
Authored nutrition and health writing projects under contract to Riverside Publishing.
Developed and presented seminars for corporations and the general
public.
Education
2004- 2006-MFA in Literature and Creative Writing at the Writing Seminars at Bennington College
2000 – University Journalism classes
1996—1999 MS Mediation, Magna Cum Laude
1995—Certificate in Quality Management
1986--1988 BSN, Support Area: Professional Communication
1982--1984 ADN Phi Thetta Kappa
1980-1981 Diploma Practical Nursing, Phi Thetta Kappa
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