Amy L Jenkins

Amy L Jenkins is a writer, speaker , and educator from Wisconsin. She often writes nonfiction and and is held captive by literature of place.

Amy's essays about walking natural landscapes with her son have recently placed in several national writing contests and are published in The Flint Hills Review, Literal Latte, The Florida Review, and Rosebud. Amy also writes a quarterly review of books and film for the Wisconsin and other Midwest Sierra Club publications. She teaches writing at Carroll Universtiy and at writing seminars and workshops. She's an active freelance writer specializing in stories related to the environment, parenting , and health. She holds a BSN from Alverno College and a MFA from Bennington. Read her essay "125 Miles" in the new Seal Press release The Maternal is Political.

Selected Awards and Honors

2008 Mesa Refuge Fellowship

2008 Ellis Henerson Outdoor Writing Award: Second Place, Honorable Mention

2008 Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, 2008 Contests in Nonfiction: Finalist

2008 Santa Fe Writers Project Annual Literary Awards: Finalist

2007 Ellis Henderson Outdoor Writing Award: Second Place HM

2007 XJ Kennedy Award For Creative Nonfiction by Rosebud: Runner up

2006 Florida Review annual essay contest: First runner up

2006 Flint Hills Review annual essay contest :First Runner Up

2006 Literal Latte' annual essay contest: Second Place

2003 Annual essay writing award WRRA: First Place

Articles/essays published in Rosebud, Earth Island Journal, The Flint Hills Review, The Bennington Review, Inkpot, Home Cooking, Cappers, Big Apple Parent, Wisconsin Academy Review, Western New York Family, The Christian Reader, Home Cooking, Generations, MetroParent, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Shepherds Express Metro, Washington Families, Inscriptions, Blue Moon, The New Colonialist, and many more.

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Read an Essay in PDF by Amy L Jenkins

Read an Article by Amy L Jenkins published under the name AmyLou Jenkins. (It looks like my middle name is no longer a secret after Earth Island Journal released it in this article about the Aldo Leopold Legacy Center:Building on the Land Ethic in the 21st Century;The loving legacy of Aldo Leopold.)

Read her book reviews in her Sierra Club Muir View Column: The Green Review in PDF

July - September 2008

January - March 2008

October - December 2007

July - September 2007