Amy Lou Jenkins
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I write, read, teach, and celebrate the natural world.
Books and Chapters By A.L. Jenkins
Reviews and
Any reader drawn to the outdoors will cherish Every Natural Fact and its author's sensual intelligence potted in the fertile soil of a boundless curiosity for the world. Amy Lou Jenkins is the Anna Quindlen of the north woods, the Rachel Carson of the good land of Wisconsin, bequeathing to her son and to all of us an indestructible sense of wonder.
What makes this book such a marvel is the way the human and the non-human are kept in perfect balance: the psychological dance of a mother and son, with all its funny, touching, realistic two-steps, intersects with the desire to be opened up to the mystery and rapture of the natural sublime. It is a splendid fusion, as much about parenting and education and generation gaps as it is about patient observation of landscapes in flux. Jenkins' polished literary style makes it, sentence by sentence, a joy to read
Wisconsin's wild areas become the world in extraordinary debut by Amy Lou Jenkins'. Every Natural Fact is nothing less than sensational.
Selected Articles, Essays, and Reviews By ALJ
Brief Bio
Amy Lou Jenkins 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 multiple 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.
The Maternal is Political