I’m a 2009 recipient of an MFA in Fiction at the University of Oregon and a 2005 graduate of the University of Kansas; I also did some time in Washington, D.C. at American University. In my fiction, I write about, no kidding, camels and missiles and mysterious deaths. But not (so far) at the same time. I teach writing. I love semicolons. I sometimes write food reviews about the town I live in (please see: Good Food Eugene).
Résumé and CV available upon request, but here is the short version: My writing has appeared, well, here, at Salon, in The Oregonian, in the Penguin Classics anthology Thoreau’s Legacy, in the G.W. Review, The Strip, Tattoo Highway, Evolve magazine, and several hundred times on the cover of Open Salon. I’ve also shown up, somehow, on Russian web TV, on the BBC web site, and at the Washington Post.
In my blog, I write about bears, books, action movies, food adventures, and politics, in any combination.
My political pseudonym is Saturn Smith, and I used to be available daily at Open Salon (though as of June 2010, all content over there is also over here, often with additional points or content).
Q. So… what, you’re two people? You have like eight hundred blogs. What’s the deal?
A. Well, here, I talk about bears and Jimmy Carter and goofy stuff that happens in my life, in addition to politics, slightly more often than daily. Over at Open Salon, I talk only about politics, once a day. The reason that’s under a different name is that I signed up just to play around, and the blog kind of took off, and then it became a little too late to change around. Which is totally lame but, also, totally true.
Comments here are appreciated, and I try to respond to every single one. You can also catch me via e-mail: jenn AT kepkanation DOT com — particularly if you need someone to write for your magazine about, say, bears and books and movies and food and politics.
