Jenn Shapland is a nonfiction writer living in New Mexico. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review Daily, Outside and The Lifted Brow, among other publications. Her essay "Finders, Keepers" won a 2017 Pushcart Prize. Shapland recently published her first book, “My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir” (Tin House), a nonfiction book about her experience interning in the archives of the Harry Ransom Center that bridges the boundaries of autobiography and biography. Her work has received support from the Georgia O'Keeffe fellowship, residencies at the Carson McCullers Center for Artists and Musicians, Vermont Studio Center and the Tin House Writers Workshop. She teaches as an adjunct in the Creative Writing department at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe.
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