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Jenn Shapland

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Born
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Nonfiction, Gay and Lesbian, Memoir

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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 won the 2021 Lambda Literary Award, among other honors. Shapland has a PhD in English from the University of Texas at Austin. She currently works as an archivist for a visual artist.

Her second book, Thin Skin, will be published in August 2023 by Pantheon Books. Her essays have appeared in New England Review, the New York Times, Outside, Guernica, and Tin House.

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“Libraries, archives, and museums all find themselves at the intersection of materiality and the mystical. Perhaps this is why we’re so quiet when we enter them.”
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“Books seem to find me when I’m ready for them, or else I abandon them.”
― Jenn Shapland, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir
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“I occupy the category woman, and that category must expand to contain me. In all my outfits.”
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