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Jennifer Schomburg Kanke

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Poetry, Fiction, Historical Fiction

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Jennifer Schomburg Kanke's work has recently appeared in New Ohio Review, Pleiades, Massachusetts Review, and Shenandoah. She is the winner of a Sheila-Na-Gig Editor’s Choice Award for Fiction. Her zine about her experiences undergoing chemotherapy for ovarian cancer, Fine, Considering, is available from Rinky Dink Press (2019). Her full-length poetry collection, The Swellest Wife Anyone Ever Had, about Appalachian Ohio is available now from Kelsay Books. She can be found on YouTube hosting the Meter Cute Interviews podcast focusing on interviews with contemporary writers on Meter&Mayhem. ...more

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	Stained: an anthology of writing about menstruation by Rachel Neve-Midbar (Editor), Jennifer Saunders (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kelly Russel Agadon (Contributor) 4.30 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2023 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Come As You Are by E. Kristin Anderson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Allison Joseph (Contributor), Rosebud Ben-Oni (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.59 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Swellest Wife Anyone Ever Had it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 10 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	NonBinary Review #23: Apocalypse by Zoetic Press, Carolyn Agee (Goodreads Author), Kevin David Anderson (Goodreads Author) 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Kindness of Strangers by Heather Tosteson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Charles D. Brockett (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Anusha V.R. (Goodreads Author) 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment: Volume 20, Issue 4, Autumn 2013 by Scott Slovic (Editor), Shaunanne Tangney (Contributor), Irene Gammel (Contributor) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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A War of Stone and Scales: Volume 1 of Book 1 of The Anura Chronicles

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Gravity's Rainbow

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I was going to give this book 4 stars, which is my "I enjoyed this book a lot" number, but then I saw a lot of people giving it low ratings, so I felt like I needed to off-set them more. The folks giving it a 1? The book just really wasn't for them a ...more
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I do a monthly writing circle at a local bookshop and I can't wait to try out some if these practices with the group. I'd never really thought much about how I leave my writing time and this book has me thinking about it more now. ...more
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I can't imagine the amount of research it took to do this story justice, but I am glad Donna Meredith did it. What a wonderful trip through history this is! ...more
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