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I love stories. I can find a reason to be obsessed with anything.

Jenny Catlin writes about survival, class, and obsession, which is to say she is interested in the beautiful wreckage people make of their lives and what they build from the scrap. She is a Pushcart Prize winner, a Best American Essays notable mention, and a Lighthouse Writers Workshop Book Project fellow. She also writes about sports for The Athletic, where she gets paid to explain left turns, engine noise, and other American religions.

Her work has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Willow Springs, Horror Sleaze Trash, and elsewhere. She has taught incarcerated people, college freshmen, and adults with intellectual disabilities, and has ghostwritten enough bureaucratic policy documents to qualify as a minor government haunting.

She loves brutalist architecture, bad weather, former Skid Row front man, Sebastian Bach, Octavia Butler, and the kind of obsession that ruins your life a little but improves your soul.

She lives in a Superfund site in Denver, CO and loves the American West.