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Jenn Shapland

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Jenn Shapland is a writer living in New Mexico. Her first book, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award and won the 2021 Lambda Literary Award, among other honors. Shapland has a PhD in English from the University of Texas at Austin. She currently works as an archivist for a visual artist.

Her second book, Thin Skin, will be published in August 2023 by Pantheon Books. Her essays have appeared in New England Review, the New York Times, Outside, Guernica, and Tin House.

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	My Autobiography of Carson McCullers 4.08 avg rating — 2,768 ratings — published 2020 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thin Skin: Essays 3.98 avg rating — 699 ratings — published 2023 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Agnes Martin: Independence of Mind by Chelsea Weathers (editor), Agnes Martin (Artist), Teju Cole (Contributor) 4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness

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“Libraries, archives, and museums all find themselves at the intersection of materiality and the mystical. Perhaps this is why we’re so quiet when we enter them.”
― Jenn Shapland

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“I occupy the category woman, and that category must expand to contain me. In all my outfits.”
― Jenn Shapland, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers

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“But also because I don’t feel like I was ever actually in. I feel more like, growing up in a conservative, reticent community, I just didn’t know—for lack of example and lack of vocabulary—what I was, what I could be, that I could love women and still be myself.”
― Jenn Shapland, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir

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