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Jennifer Bowen
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Jennifer Bowen's essays and stories appear in Orion, The Sun, Kenyon Review, The Iowa Review, The Rumpus, The Normal School, Tin House, and elsewhere. She's been honored with a Best American Essay Notable mention, a Pushcart Prize Special Mention, the Arts & Letters Prize, Tim McGinnis Award, and others. Jennifer is the Artistic Director of the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop.
The Rumpus Interview with Robin MacArthur
Robin MacArthur discusses her debut story collection Half Wild, life in rural Vermont, and how narrative—and fiction—is key to reaching across what divides us.
Of Farmers and Fathers
For reasons I’ll never understand, I am my father’s rooster. My life is filled with farmers. We find our farmers where our interests are, I guess.
The Rumpus Interview with Adam Braver
Adam Braver is a novelist, professor, and human rights activist, though not always in that order.
The Rumpus Interview with Nanette Vonnegut
To commemorate what would have been Kurt Vonnegut's 90th birthday, The Rumpus sits down with Nanette Vonnegut for an exclusive interview about her father, his legacy, and his writing...
The Rumpus Interview with Hans Weyandt
Hans Weyandt, editor of Read This!: Handpicked Favorites from America's Indie Bookstores, exemplifies the assertion that booksellers are "matchmakers at heart."
The Rumpus Interview with Steve Almond
Steve Almond just released his third story collection, God Bless America. Among the stories, which Junot Díaz says are, “without equal in their beautiful, terrible honesty,” a couple are included…