Jenny Catlin
Writer and Freelance Journalist
Writer. Worker. Witness.
Jenny Catlin writes about the strange physics of survival, class, and obsession. She’s a Pushcart Prize winner, Best American Essays notable mention and Lighthouse Writers Workshop Book Project fellow. She explains how to watch fast cars make left turns and other sports for The Athletic. Her work has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Willow Springs, Horror-Sleaze-Trash and others. As an educator, she has taught incarcerated people, college freshmen, and adults with intellectual disabilities. Jenny has ghostwritten thousands of pages of bureaucratic policy documents. When she’s not writing or at her day job, she enjoys brutalist architecture, bad weather, and thinking about Octavia Butler. Jenny lives on a superfund site in Denver with four dogs, an impressive clown collection, and a couple 1990’s G20 vans.
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Currently meeting with agents for my finished memoir.
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Known for fast turnarounds, disciplined fact-checking, and clear, accessible prose.
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“A Place I didn’t Try to Die in Los Angeles,” Pushcart Prize Winner, 2024.