Amy Lou Jenkins

Amy Lou Jenkins BSN MFA is the award-winning writer of Every Natural Fact and more. 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, Milwaukee Area Tech College, U of Madison Write by the Lake and...See more

Amy Lou Jenkins BSN MFA is the award-winning writer of Every Natural Fact and more. 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, Milwaukee Area Tech College, U of Madison Write by the Lake and dozens more venues. She's a graduate of Alverno College (Nursing and Professional Communication) and the Bennington Writing Seminars (Literature and writing) and lives in Wisconsin. 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. - Bob Shacochis, National Book Award-winning author of Easy in The Islands and The Immaculate Invasion Braiding together history, memoir, gentle parenting guidance, and superb nature writing, Jenkins' prose illuminates the details of ordinary life.-Susan Cheever, author of American Bloomsbury Wisconsin's wild areas become the world in extraordinary debut by Amy Lou Jenkins'. Every Natural Fact is nothing less than sensational. By Pamela Miller, Minneapolis Star Tribune. If you combined the lyricism of Annie Dillard, the vision of Aldo Leopold, and the gentle but tough-minded optimism of Frank McCourt, you might come close to Amy Lou Jenkins, a writer who obliterates the distinction between regional writing and actual, honest-to-god writing. I, for one, would follow her anywhere.-Tom Bissell, author of The Father of All Things See less