Jenny is a writer and book editor from California currently living in Marburg, Germany. She earned her BA in English and creative writing from UC Berkeley and her MFA in fiction from Brooklyn College. Her award-winning fiction, nonfiction, and graphic stories have appeared in Blip, Opium Magazine, The Sun Magazine (Reader's Write), The Best Women’s Travel Writing, Swink, Prick of the Spindle, Matador Travel, and Pology, among others. She was nominated for Best New Poets 2009 and received a 2008–2009 writing fellowship with Teachers & Writers Collaborative.

Please explore the above links to read published work, learn about editing services, or find out about upcoming events. 

Jenny is represented by Marly Rusoff of the Marly Rusoff Literary Agency.

News & Updates  

Jenny is honored to have received a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation for emerging writers. She will be traveling to Uganda in the spring of 2013 to do further research for her novel-in-progress. 

Recently published: Two poems about place, searching, and love.

BLIP's Fall 2011 issue contains Jenny's short-short "Sleep Lab." Sweet dreams.

"Valley Justice," a (very) short story, appears on Opium Magazine's website.

Oink oink / hrgu hrgu / knor knor: "Animal Noises Around the World" was recently published at Matador.

Spring 2011: "Butterfly, Lightning" is a graphic story about Jenny's memories of volunteering in Sudan.

Jenny received an honorable mention for her musical animation, "Three Trees," in the Brooklyn College 2011 Library Art Award.

Battle Runes: Writings on War, a new anthology including Jenny's short-short story "Go" (previously published as "Abduction/Induction") is now available.

Jenny's novelette, The Widow and the Twin, earned an honorable mention in the 2010 3-Day Novel Contest. An excerpt from the same novel also received an honorable mention in the 2010 CZP/Rannu Fund for Writers of Speculative Literature.

"Living with Bears" appears in the Wit's End section of Swink.

Asante sana, Brooklyn College! In 2010, Jenny received the Ross Feld Award for her story "Big Game," about a Kenyan safari gone wrong.



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