accolades
Pushcart Prize, 2022, for “Night Cows”
A Very Small Arts Fund, Award Recipient, 2021
William Rainey Bread Loaf Scholarship, 2019
Steinberg Essay Prize Finalist, Fourth Genre, 2014
Bread Loaf-Rona Jaffe Foundation Scholar in Nonfiction, 2014
Jerome Travel & Study Grant Recipient, Jerome Foundation, 2014
Finalist, The Normal School Prize, 2014
Tim McGinnis Memorial Award, The Iowa Review, 2013
Best American Essays Notable Essay (Ed., Cheryl Strayed), 2013
Arts & Letters Susan Atefat Prize for Creative Nonfiction, 2013
Pushcart Prize Special Mention, 2012
select prose
“Night Cows,”
The Sun Magazine, 2020
“Next of Kin,”
The Sun Magazine, 2019
“Inquiry into Epigenetics,”
Kenyon Review, December 2016
“Candling Delicious,”
Arts & Letters, 2014
“Old News, Unverified,”
The Iowa Review, Winter 2013/2014
“The Library,”
The Sun Magazine, 2019
“Boneyards,”
Tin House online, 2017
“Skinny Dipping,”
Austin Review, 2013
“Attention,”
North American Review, Summer 2013
“Buffalo Cactus and Other New Stories from the Southwest,”
Ed. Myhren, Brett Garcia, Horton, D. Seth, University of New Mexico Press, 2018.
“Prison Ecology,”
Orion Magazine
“Marco Polo,”
Third Coast, Issue 38/39, Winter 2015
“Of Farmers and Fathers,”
The Rumpus, May 2014
“Whispered Wills,”
Brevity 38, November 2011
“Postcards from a Prison Teacher,”
Gwarlingo, September 2013
interviews
others by jen
Interview with Mike Alberti, The Rumpus, 2021
Interview with Robin MacArthur, The Rumpus, 2016
Interview with Nanette Vonnegut,” The Rumpus, 2012
Interview with Adam Braver, The Rumpus, 2013
Interview with Hans Weyandt, The Rumpus, 2012
Interview with Steve Almond, The Rumpus, 2011
