Posted July 2010
Best of Miami!—How to Leave Hialeah was selected as the "Best Book by a Local Author" for 2010 by the Miami New Times! Check out the full write-up here (and check out the comments section; there's a post by Jennine's high school counselor! AWESOME.): Best of Miami 2010
Posted June 2010
Holy Crap! The John Gardner Award—How to Leave Hialeah was selected as the 2010 winner of the john Gardner Award. She'll be headed to Binghamton, NY in March of 2010 for a reading. More on this crazy-wonderful news here: HTLH & the John Gardner Award
Posted February 2010
Vermin's One Question Interview—Check out this quick interview Jennine did with Vermin on the Mount's Jim Ruland just before her March reading: Craziest Experience at a Reading?
Posted December 2009
Best of 2009, Miami Style—How to Leave Hialeah has been named a best book of the year by the Miami Herald! The list includes books by Margaret Atwood, Lorrie Moore, and William Trevor, among others. See the complete list and the write up of HTLH here: Miami Herald's Best Books of 2009.
Posted December 2009
Best of 2009—How to Leave Hialeah has been named a best book of the year by the Latinidad List! Many, many thanks to Marcela Landres for this honor. Read all about it here: The 2009 Latinidad List.
Posted November 2009
Going to Miami—Jennine will be appearing at the Miami Book Fair International as part of a panel on Saturday, November 14th at 4:30PM. Details about this event are available here: Jennine at the Miami Book Fair!!
Posted October 2009
Watch out, South Carolina!—Jennine is the winner of this year's John Winthrop Prize for her story, "Relapsing, Remitting." That means she'll be at the College of Charleston to give a reading and a lecture in late October! Read all about it here: Jennine loves John Winthrop.
Posted October 2009
Jennine Hits (West) Hollywood—Come see Jennine read from How to Leave Hialeah at the West Hollywood Book Fair as part of an awesome panel on short fiction. Learn more here.
Posted August 2009
An EPOCH story—The title story of Jennine's debut collection is ready for reading in EPOCH magazine. Big thanks to Michael Koch and his staff for putting the issue together, and congrats to fellow Bread Loafer Laura van den Berg, whose story appears in the same issue.
Posted May 2009
Consider Your Holiday Shopping Complete—How to Leave Hialeah, Jennine's debut story collection and winner of the 2009 Iowa Short Fiction Award, is available for preorder on Amazon.com. Buy 3 copies and you get free shipping. Ha!
Posted April 2009
Ex-Boyfriends, Prepare Yourselves—Jennine's story, "Men Who Punched Me in the Face," will be appearing in this fall's issue of Gulf Coast magazine. Read more about this great-looking journal here.
Posted April 2009
In Stores Now—The spring issue of the Potomac Review, which contains Jennine's story "Animal Control," is now available. Read a small piece of it here. Big thanks to Julie Wakemann-Linn for the shout out in the issue's TOC, and congrats to Christian Anton Gerard (friend and fellow 08 Bread Loaf waiter), whose poem "Sown" appears in the same issue.
Posted March 2009
Epoch News—The title story of Jennine's forthcoming collection has been accepted for publication in Epoch. Look for "How to Leave Hialeah" is this summer's issue.
Posted March 2009
Crazy for Crazyhorse—Jennine's short story, "Relapsing, Remitting" will be published in the summer issue of Crazyhorse magazine. Crazy! Horse!
Posted March 2009
Hot off the (Virtual) Presses—"And in the Morning, Work" is currently available for your reading pleasure in the Summerset Review. The editors there picked a gorgeous photo to accompany the story. Check out it out by clicking here.
Posted February 2009
Heading South—"The Next Move" has been accepted for publication in the Southern Review. Thanks to the editors there for their kind words and for tolerating all of Jennine's happy profanity upon hearing the news.
Posted February 2009
And in the Meantime, Read—Jennine's short story, "And in the Morning, Work" will be published in the spring issue of the Summerset Review. Special shout out to Joseph for his stellar editing work.
Posted January 2009
As in, From the Hospital—Look for Jennine's short story, "Discharge Summary," in the February/March edition of Pindeldyboz. It'll be there!
Posted January 2009
Consumption Junction—On Thursday, February 12th, Jennine will be reading in Chicago as part of "An Evening of Consumption," a night of fiction, poetry, and essays brought to you by the 2008 Bread Loaf waiter crew. Click here for more info.
Posted January 2009
BIG FREAKING NEWS!—Jennine's short story collection, How to Leave Hialeah, has just won the 2009 Iowa Short Fiction Award. The prize includes publication: her debut book will be available this fall! Much love to this year's judge, Curtis Sittenfeld, for selecting Jennine's book. Read more about this big honor here.
Posted December 2008
Please, Control Yourself (posted 12/20/08)—Jennine's short story, "Animal Control," has been accepted for publication in the Spring 2009 issue of the Potomac Review.
Posted October 2008
Eyes on the Prize —Jennine's short story collection, How to Leave Hialeah (originally titled Hialeah's Finest: Stories from the Heart of Miami), was selected by Sheila Ortiz Taylor as the third place winner of the 2008 Chicano/Latino Literary Prize, sponsored by the University of California, Irvine. Read more about the prize here.
Posted August 2008
Back from the Mountain—Jennine has returned safely from Bread Loaf, full of inspiration, love for her new friends, and waitressing experience.
Posted May 2008
Bread Loaf Bound—Jennine has been awarded a work-study scholarship in fiction to this year's Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. She looks forward to accidentally spilling water on important literary figures in her capacity as a waitress during the conference.
Posted May 2008
Who's the Boss?—Read Jennine's most recent book review for L Magazine. You can find it here.
Posted January 2008
Tick,Tock—Jennine was named one of only 22 semi-finalists worldwide for the 2008 Rolex Mentor & Protégé Arts Initiative, an international competition that supports promising young writers by pairing them with world-renowned literary figures.
