Jenn Shapland

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Shapland at the 2023 Texas Book Festival

Jenn Shapland is an American writer and archivist. Her essay "Finders, Keepers" won a Pushcart Prize in 2017, and her memoir, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir in 2021.[1]

Shapland lives in New Mexico.[2] She received her PhD in English from the University of Texas at Austin.[2]

Career

Aside from writing, Shapland is an adjunct instructor in the Creative Writing Department at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe,[3] as well as an archivist for a visual artist.[2]

My Autobiography of Carson McCullers (2020)

Thin Skin (2023)

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