248 ratings | 0 reviews | avg rating:3.62

Jenny Ruden’s Followers (8)

Jenny’s Bookshelves

to-read (44)
currently-reading (0)
read (248)
did-not-finish (0)

Jenny’s Friends (12)

Ellen

5,312 books | 44 friends

Helen Stein

1,162 books | 164 friends

Anita Nother Book

1,689 books | 314 friends

Mary

368 books | 177 friends

Jennifer

810 books | 50 friends

Nealkeena

319 books | 23 friends

Bethany

1,725 books | 51 friends

Rhiannon Griffith

55 books | 16 friends

More friends…

Jenny Ruden

Goodreads Author

Website

http://jennyruden.com/

Twitter

jruden1

Genre

Young Adult, Contemporary, Humor and Comedy

Member Since

March 2009

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/jennyruden

edit data

Jenny Ruden has published short stories and essays in Nerve, Salon, Eclectica Magazine, Literary Mama and High Desert Journal. She won an Orlando award for creative nonfiction, was named a finalist in Glimmertrain’s short fiction contest, and has been nominated for the Pushcart prize two years in a row. She has an MFA in Fiction from the University of Oregon and has worked with teenagers for many years as a teacher of Reading, Writing, and GED. She lives with her husband, two daughters, two basset hounds and cat in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

She does a near-flawless impersonation of a normal person. Don’t be fooled. She’s a writer.

Learn more
Ask the Author

To ask Jenny Ruden questions, please sign up.

Combine Editions
Jenny Ruden’s books

Average rating: 3.68 · 95 ratings · 36 reviews · 1 distinct work

Camp Utopia and the Forgiveness Diet

3.68 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions

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

* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics	posts	views	last activity
The Seasonal Read...: Spring 2015 Completed Tasks - DO NOT DELETE POSTS	3347	576	May 31, 2015 08:59PM
The Challenge Fac...: R5: SS Novels at Night (14)	275	77	Jun 09, 2015 09:19PM
Nothing But Readi...: Lady Cait's Adventure	15	805	Jun 19, 2015 07:13AM
Nothing But Readi...: NBRC 26 Alphabet 4: The Bad, The Scary and The Terrifying: A to Z (Mixed)	251	1083	Dec 28, 2025 09:55AM

More…

Jenny’s Quotes

“For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard. There isn't any other tale to tell, it's the only light we've got in all this darkness.”
― James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues

212 likes