Amy  L Jenkins is a writer and speaker from Wisconsin. She worked for years as a Registered nurse and wrote part-time. Several years ago she  put her nursing career on hold, earned her MFA in Literature and Creative Writing from Bennington College and began to call writing her primary career.  She most often writes nonfiction and and is held captive by literature of place. 

       Her series of braided essays about walking natural landscapes with her son have recently placed in several national writing contests and are published or forthcoming 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.

Amy has completed a book of essays , she's also working on another creative nonfiction book related to a family of conservationists. 

Awards and Honors  

2008Mesa Refuge Writing 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 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   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. 

Editor Anthologiesonline.com

Anthologized in The Maternal is Political,  Chicken Soup for the Caregiver's Soul , Women on Writing,A Womans's Journey, A Cup of Comfort for Inspiration, Humor for a Teacher's Heart,  and many more compilations.   Speaker: has read essays on Wisconsin and Alaska public radio 
Lecturer: Alverno College Great Lakes Writers Workshop and Telisis

 Corporate writer for newsletters, profiles, policies, public relations, and more. 
Authored nutrition and health writing projects under contract to Riverside       Publishing. 
Developed and presented seminars for corporations and the  general public. 
Developed training modules and competency tests          
Long–term care consultant
 Nurses Aide Instructor/Teacher
 Authored clinical column in monthly publication
Authored nursing training manual
 Authored over 100 nursing care plans/ and over 25 patient training guides

Education 

2006-MFA in Literature and  Writing Bennington College
2000 – University Journalism classes
1999 MS Mediation, Magna Cum Laude
1995—Certificate in Quality Management
1986--1988 BSN, Support Area: Professional Communication
1982--1984 ADN Phi Thetta Kappa
1980-1981 Diploma Practical Nursing, Phi Thetta Kappa

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