Jenny Shank
Jenny Shank's novel The Ringer (The Permanent Press, 2011) won the High Plains Book Award in fiction, was a finalist for the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association's Reading the West Book Awards, and was a Tattered Cover Book Store Summer Reading selection. Her stories, essays, satire, and reviews have appeared in The Atlantic, The Guardian, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, The Onion, Poets & Writers Magazine, Bust Magazine, Prairie Schooner, Alaska Quarterly Review, Santa Monica Review, Five Chapters, Michigan Quarterly Review, Image, Rocky Mountain News, Dallas Morning News, High Country News, PBS MediaShift, The Rumpus, The Huffington Post and The McSweeney's Book of Politics and Musicals (Vintage, 2012). One of her stories was listed among the "Notable Essays of the Year" in Best American Essays.