Jenn McKee is a Michigan-based journalist, essayist, and critic who spent more than a decade working as a staff arts reporter at The Ann Arbor News. (Two highlights, among many: attending a small press lunch with Patrick Stewart, and chatting by phone with David Sedaris for 45 minutes.)

More recently, Jenn’s work has appeared in The Washington Post, Good Housekeeping, Shondaland, Next Avenue, Well+Good, Scary Mommy, Brevity Blog, The Writer, Your Teen, American Theatre, Hour Detroit, Dorothy Parker’s Ashes, The Detroit Free Press and more.

While earning her MFA in creative writing (fiction) at Penn State University, Jenn taught undergraduate courses in rhetoric, business writing, and creative writing; and she wrote a story, titled “Under the Influence,” that Joyce Carol Oates selected for an anthology called Best New American Voices. Jenn also earned an MA in English from the University of Georgia, and a BA in creative writing and literature from the University of Michigan (where she met her future husband in the Michigan Marching Band’s trombone section, and wrote her first theater reviews for The Michigan Daily).

Recently, after working as a part-time page for six years at the local library, Jenn returned to the world of bookselling by way of a new indie shop, called Road Less Traveled Bookstore, where she will also help plan literary events. She lives with her commercial litigator spouse (YOU try arguing with him, OK?), her two teenage daughters (thoughts and prayers), and two all-gray sister-cats that seemingly NEVER STOP chirping at birds and chipmunks through the window.