Jenn Shapland is an American writer and archivist. Her essay "Finders, Keepers" won a

Pushcart Prize The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize published by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are ...

in 2017, and her memoir, ''My Autobiography of Carson McCullers'', won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir in 2021.

Personal life

Shapland lives in New Mexico. She received her

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in English from the University of Texas at Austin.

Career

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

''My Autobiography of Carson McCullers'' (2020)

''My Autobiography of Carson McCullers'' is a memoir, published February 4, 2020 by

Tin House Books ''Tin House'' is an American book publisher based in Portland, Oregon, and New York City. Portland publisher Win McCormack originally conceived the idea for a literary magazine called ''Tin House'' in the summer of 1998. He enlisted Holly MacArt ...

. The book received the following accolades: * National Book Award for Nonfiction finalist (2020) * Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir/Biography winner (2021) * Stonewall Book Award honor book (2021) *

Christian Gauss Award The Phi Beta Kappa Society () is the oldest academic honor society in the United States, and the most prestigious, due in part to its long history and academic selectivity. Phi Beta Kappa aims to promote and advocate excellence in the liberal ar ...

(2021)https://www.pbk.org/2021BookWinners

References

Living people Writers from New Mexico Institute of American Indian Arts faculty LGBT memoirists University of Texas at Austin alumni Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-writer-stub