Jenny Shank’s story collection “Mixed Company” won the George Garrett Fiction prize and the Colorado Book Award in General Fiction, and her novel “The Ringer” won the High Plains Book Award. Her stories, essays, satire and book reviews have appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, Prairie Schooner, Missouri Review, The McSweeney’s Book of Politics and Musicals and Dear McSweeney’s. Her work has been honorably mentioned by The Best American Essays, the Pushcart Prize anthology and her mother. She teaches in the Mile High MFA program at Regis University and the Lighthouse Writers Workshop.