Jenny Zhang (writer)

Jenny Zhang is an American writer and poet based in Brooklyn, New York. She has two published collections of poetry, Dear Jenny, We Are All Find and HAGS.

Life

Zhang was born in Shanghai. She graduated from Stanford University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

She is a regular contributor to the online magazine for teen girls, Rookie, for which she has written both fiction and nonfiction. Zhang has also written for features on the Rookie site such as “Oh! You Pretty Things,” which answers readers’ questions about beauty, and “Saturday Links,” which, when it was still running, published a weekly-roundup of current events with links to news articles, websites, and photos. Her website is www.jennybagel.com.[1]

One of Zhang's stories was included in the first issue of Lena Dunham's Lenny newsletter.[2]

Publications

Poetry books
Non-fiction
Fiction
Poetry
Video
Photography

References

  1. "Jenny Zhang". www.jennybagel.com. Retrieved 2015-09-07.
  2. Thompson, Eliza (August 31, 2015). "Read Lena Dunham's First Published Short Story". Cosmopolitan.
  3. Roberto Montesreviewer (April 24, 2014). "Dear Jenny, We Are All Find". Sink Review. Retrieved 10 September 2015. Rarely have I had the opportunity to read a book that so expertly instantiates the terribly beautiful affect of identity as Jenny Zhang’s Dear Jenny, We Are All Find.
  4. "Jenny Zhang's Dear Jenny, We are all Find". The Volta Blog. January 24, 2014. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
  5. Tobias Carroll (August 4, 2014). "The Zinophile: Reading Jenny Zhang's "Hags"". Vol 1 Brooklyn. It’s best described as a long essay, blending candid observations from life with references to literature and folklore, and working it way towards a denouement that finds a political expression for all that’s come before.
  6. Claire Marie Healy. "Jenny Zhang's sisterhood is stranger than yours". Dazed. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
  7. "Two Poems by Jenny Zhang". BOMB Magazine. April 26, 2013.
  8. "Jenny Zhang – Pinwheel". Pinwheel. Retrieved 14 September 2015.
  9. Zhang, Jenny (2015). "Don't fucking text your friends when I'm reading a poem it took two years to write". Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poets for the Next Generation. Penguin. ISBN 1-101-61538-9.

External links

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