Jenn Shapland

Jenn Shapland is an American writer and archivist. Her essay "Finders, Keepers" won a Pushcart Prize in 2017, and her memoir, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir in 2021.

Personal life
Shapland lives in New Mexico. She received her PhD in English from the University of Texas at Austin.

Career
Aside from writing, Shapland is an adjunct instructor in the Creative Writing Department at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, as well as an archivist for a visual artist.

My Autobiography of Carson McCullers (2020)
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers is a memoir, published February 4, 2020 by Tin House Books. The book received the following accolades:


 * National Book Award for Nonfiction finalist (2020)
 * Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir/Biography winner (2021)
 * Stonewall Book Award honor book (2021)
 * Christian Gauss Award (2021)

Thin Skin (2023)
Thin Skin is a book of essays, published by Penguin Random House in 2023.