Jenn Dean
Jenn grew up in upstate New York. A former actress and stand-up comedian, she studied theatre at S.U.N.Y. New Paltz in the early 1980’s, and received an M.F.A. from the Bennington Writing Seminars in June 2001.
A portion of her unpublished memoir, House of My Sleepless Nights, was published in Salamander, and her interview with the writer Jane Brox appeared in The Writer’s Chronicle. Awarded a Millay Colony residency, she’s been a featured artist in SoundFalls, an evening of music and stories, in Carnation, WA, and was a finalist for the Lamar York Non-Fiction prize. She’s been published by Platypus Press, and in Hawaii Pacific Review. Her long form essay, The Keepers of the Ghost Bird, about her encounter with one of the rarest seabirds in the world, has been published through Massachusetts Review’s Working Titles series as an e-book and is anthologized in When Birds Are Near, edited by Susan Fox Rogers. The essay won the 2018 John Burrough’s Association Nature Essay of the year award. The essay was also a 2016 finalist in the New Millenium Writings Literary Awards. An interview with Jenn appears here.
Jenn currently lives in the Pacific Northwest and is writing a book about the valley she lives in called Letters From the Valley of the Moon.
A portion of her unpublished memoir, House of My Sleepless Nights, was published in Salamander, and her interview with the writer Jane Brox appeared in The Writer’s Chronicle. Awarded a Millay Colony residency, she’s been a featured artist in SoundFalls, an evening of music and stories, in Carnation, WA, and was a finalist for the Lamar York Non-Fiction prize. She’s been published by Platypus Press, and in Hawaii Pacific Review. Her long form essay, The Keepers of the Ghost Bird, about her encounter with one of the rarest seabirds in the world, has been published through Massachusetts Review’s Working Titles series as an e-book and is anthologized in When Birds Are Near, edited by Susan Fox Rogers. The essay won the 2018 John Burrough’s Association Nature Essay of the year award. The essay was also a 2016 finalist in the New Millenium Writings Literary Awards. An interview with Jenn appears here.
Jenn currently lives in the Pacific Northwest and is writing a book about the valley she lives in called Letters From the Valley of the Moon.