Amy Lou Jenkins extended bio and links are below.

She is a writer, speaker, nurse, and educator from Wisconsin. Her books include Every Natural Fact, Friends, Corners, and Single Scull Rowing.  Her writing has been honored by the USA Book Awards, X.J. Kennedy Award for Nonfiction, Wisconsin Jade Ring Award, Florida Review Editor Award in Creative Nonfiction, Flint Hills Review Nonfiction Award, and Literal Latté Annual Essay Award. She is the recipient of a Mesa Refuge Writing and Shake Rag Alley residencies and taught writing at Carroll University, MATC, and in other writing workshops, conferences, universities, and classes.

Her work has appeared in magazines, newspapers, and anthologies including Wisconsin Trails, Wisconsin Academy Review, Flint Hills Review, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Shepherds Express, Florida Review, Inkpot, Earth Island Journal, Generations, Consequence, Rosebud, Big Apple Parent, MetroParent, Washington Families, Sport Literate, Chicken Soup and Cup of Comfort books, Women on Writing, Wild with Child, The Maternal is Political and more. Amy Lou splits her time between Wisconsin, Arkansas, and her travel van.