Jenn Shapland
Special guest
Jenn Shapland is a writer living in New Mexico. Her first book, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award and the Southern Book Prize, and won the 2021 Lambda Literary Award, the Judy Grahn Award, and the Christian Gauss Award. Her second book, Thin Skin, an essay collection exploring the porousness of boundaries, was published in 2023.
Her essays have appeared in New England Review, the New York Times, Guernica, and Tin House, and have been awarded a Pushcart Prize and the Rabkin Foundation Award. Her research and writing have been supported by residencies at Aspen Words, Yaddo, Ucross, and Vermont Studio Center and by fellowships from the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum and the Howard Foundation.
She has a PhD in English from the University of Texas at Austin and she works as an archivist for a visual artist.
Photograph by Brad Trone.
Jenn Shapland has been a guest on 1 episode.
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Episode 44: Jenn Shapland - THIN SKIN
7 October 2023 | 55 mins 21 secs
authors, interviews, ksqd, nonfiction
Host Clara Sherley-Appel speaks with Jenn Shapland, whose new essay collection, Thin Skin, explores the porousness of boundaries — between humans and the environments we inhabit, between ourselves and other people, and between the identities we construct and the social pressures and expectations we encounter.