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Amy Lou Jenkins
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Amy developed a love of anthologies while living the busy life of a wife, mother, nurse, and writer. Anthologies were a way to find the best of a genre or theme, or an introduction to a style of writing. While remaining a fan of compilations, her love of literature grew beyond anthologies.    Amy  put her nursing career on hold, earned her MFA in Literature and Creative Writing from Bennington College.  She primarily writes literary nonfiction and is held captive by literature of place. Her work has been published in Earth Island Journal, Grit, SportLiterate,  Home Cooking, MetroParent and dozens of other parenting journals, and scads of  national print and web publications.   Her series of braided essays about walking natural landscapes with her son have recently placed in several national writing contests and have been published in The Flint Hills Review, Literal Latte, The Florida Review, and Rosebud. Amy teaches writing at Universities and writing workshops and writes a quarterly review of books and film for the Wisconsin and other Midwest Sierra Club publications.  See her events and appearances.

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Every Natural Fact: Five Seasons of Open-Air Parenting has been selected as a Midwest Booksellers Connection Pick.

What others are saying about Every Natural Fact:    

“Any reader drawn to the outdoors will cherish EVERY NATURAL FACT and its author's sensual intelligence potted in the fertile soil of a boundless curiosity for the world. Amy Lou Jenkins is the Anna Quindlen of the north woods, the Rachel Carson of the good land of Wisconsin, bequeathing to her son and to all of us an indestructible sense of wonder”.  —Bob Shacochis, National Book Award-winning author of Easy in The Islands and The Immaculate Invasion       

Braiding together history, memoir, gentle parenting guidance, and superb nature writing, Jenkins' prose illuminates the details of ordinary life."—Susan Cheever Author of American Bloomsbury
 
"If you combined the lyricism of Annie Dillard, the vision of Aldo Leopold, and the gentle but tough-minded optimism of Frank McCourt, you might come close to Amy Lou Jenkins, a writer who obliterates the distinction between regional writing and actual, honest-to-god writing. I, for one, would follow her anywhere."—Tom Bissell author of The Father of All Things 

"Amy Lou Jenkins writes with complexity about the dance human beings do with nature, and with one another...She puts together pieces of history, natural history, and parenting to make a touching and memorable whole. The whole thing rings true." —Michael Finley, judge of the Ellis Henderson Outdoor Writing Award.

 "Her vivid imagery mixes a naturalist's precision with a spiritual seeker's poetry." –Robert Wake, author and editor of Cambridge Book Review Press and co-judge for the X.J. Kennedy Award for Nonfiction

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