“Shawna Kay Rodenberg is the author of Kin, a debut memoir deemed “essential reading” by the Washington Post and “gorgeously gritty” by Oprah Daily.
She holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars, where she now teaches nonfiction, and her essays have appeared in Salon, the Village Voice, and Elle. In 2016, Shawna was awarded the Jean Ritchie Fellowship, and in 2017 she was the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award. A registered nurse, mother of five, and grandmother of two, she was raised in the mountains of eastern Kentucky and, briefly, on a cluster of religious communes in northern Minnesota. She’s obsessed, universally, with mysteries and mystics. She lives on a hobby goat farm in southern Indiana. Her second book, a sequel to her first, is in progress.
Contact
Email: shawnakaylit@gmail.com
IG: @shawnarodenberg
Agent: Bill Clegg | Clegg Agency 156 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1210 New York, NY 10010
