Jenny Shank's novel, The Ringer, won the High Plains Book Award in fiction and was a finalist for the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association's Reading the West Award. One of her pieces was listed among the "Notable Essays of the Year" in the Best American Essays and another received a Special Mention in the Pushcart Prize Anthology. Her fiction, essays, satire, and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in The Atlantic, Washington Post, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, McSweeney's Quarterly, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Missouri Review, Prairie Schooner, Alaska Quarterly Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Santa Monica Review, Image, The Onion, Bust, The Toast, Dallas Morning News, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Poets & Writers Magazine, and The McSweeney's Book of Politics and Musicals. She has been a Mullin Scholar in writing at the University of Southern California and she's won writing awards from the Center of the American West, the Montana Committee for the Humanities, SouthWest Writers, and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund.
