Amy Lou Jenkins BSN MFA is the award-winning writer of Every Natural Fact, Friends, Corners, and Single Scull Rowing. She’s published hundreds of essays in literary magazines, anthologies, magazines, newspapers, and online venues. Winner of the Wisconsin Council of Writers Nonfiction Award, Jade Ring, US Best Books, Midwest Connections, Mesa Refuge Environmental Writing Fellowship, and more. She’s taught Writing at Carroll University, U of Iowa Nonfiction Now, U of Madison Write by the Lake, and dozens of more venues. See full Bio.
Personal Narrative /First-Person Writing
Turning life experience into art isn’t easy. Personal narrative has power to advance empathy and critical thinking. Your story can shift the world. Amy Lou's writing students have taught her that everyone has a story that only they can tell. And world needs that story.
Green And Wildish Living
Our Earth is hurting as societies and individuals disrupt natural systems. We celebrate and spend time in nature to advocate for and enjoy our planet. While some experience the natural world in the wildest of ways, Amy admits she’d rather not go too long without a warm shower and comfortable bed. She doesn’t rappel rock faces or cross oceans in her scull. She loves the wild Earth and natural waters, but she isn’t wild, only wildish.
In 1968, in a speech to the general assembly of the International Union for Conservation of Nature
Baba Dioum said:
“In the end, we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand and we will understand only what we are taught.”
Baba Dioum taught us that we must incite love for the natural systems of our Earth. Let's do that.
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AmyLouJenkins.com, a subsidiary of Jack Walker Press, has two main areas of service and support. We advocate for the personal narrative and for writers to advance meaning, critical thinking, and literary art. We also support, celebrate, and advocate for the natural systems of the Earth.