1. Biography

2. Writing career

3. Awards and nominations

4. Books

5. Selected Essays

6. References

Jennifer Ann Sinor is an American author and literary nonfiction writer and professor. She primarily writes memoir, research-based creative nonfiction, and personal essays that experiment with non-linear forms. Sinor’s work focuses on the body, the ineffable, and the ordinary in our lives. It is often non-linear in form and relies on association, juxtaposition, and speculative leaps.

Biography

Born in Kingsville, Texas, Sinor was raised as a military dependent.{{citation needed|date=April 2018}} Her father, a naval lawyer specializing in international ocean law, was stationed in Hawaii several times as well as the Pentagon. {{citation needed|date=April 2018}}

Sinor graduated from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, in 1987 with degrees in both English and Russian.^[1] While teaching 7th and 8th graders at ASSETS school in Honolulu, Hawaii, Jennifer completed her MA in English from the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

In 1995, she began her PhD in English and Education at the University of Michigan where she focused on women's autobiographical writing.^[2] She graduated in 2000 and moved to Logan, Utah. Since then, Sinor has taught in the English Department at Utah State University where she is the chair of the creative writing emphasis and a professor of English.^[3]

Writing career

Sinor has published essays in many journals and anthologies including The American Scholar, The Utne Reader, Creative Nonfiction, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Fourth Genre, The Colorado Review and Seneca Review. Her essay, "Confluences," appears in the 13th edition of the Norton Reader.^[4] Her essays have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize^[5] and a National Magazine Award.^[6]

Awards and nominations

• Finalist for the Modern Language Association's First Book Prize, 2002, The Extraordinary Work of Ordinary Writing: Annie Ray's Diary
• Nomination for Pushcart Prize, 2007, 2012, 2013, 2016{{citation needed|date=April 2018}}
• Honorable Mention, Personal Essay, Utah Writing Competition, 2007, “Headwaters”^[7]
• Nomination for National Magazine Award, 2008, “Confluences,” in The American Scholar {{citation needed|date=April 2018}}
• First Place, Utah Original Writing Competition, Book-length Nonfiction, 2009, Rogue Wave^[7]
• First Place, Utah Original Writing Competition, Novel, 2010 How Thin the Line ^[7]

Books

• The Extraordinary Work of Ordinary Writing: Annie Ray's Diary (University of Iowa Press, 2002) {{ISBN|978-0-87745-833-3}}^[8][9][10]
• Placing the Academy: Essays on the Landscape, Work and Identity. Co-editor with Rona Kaufman (University of Iowa Press, 2007) {{ISBN|978-0-87421-657-8}}^[11]
• Letters Like the Day: On Reading Georgia O'Keeffe (University of New Mexico Press, 2017) {{ISBN|978-0-8263-5783-0}}^[12][13]
• Ordinary Trauma: A Memoir (University of Utah Press, 2017) {{ISBN|978-1-60781-537-2}}^[14]

Selected Essays

• “[https://www.jstor.org/stable/41939355?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents The Marlin],” Fourth Genre, Fall 2004
• “[https://www.creativenonfiction.org/brevity/past%20issues/brev27/sinor_dark.html Running Through the Dark],” Creative Nonfiction 27, Summer 2008
• “[https://theamericanscholar.org/confluences/#.Wfnp3WhSyM9 Confluences],” The American Scholar, Winter 2008
• “Creating Voice,” The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction, 2012
• “[https://theamericanscholar.org/out-in-the-west/#.WNp1ihi-Ku4 Out in the West],” The American Scholar, Autumn 2011
• “The Wanting Creature,” Creative Nonfiction, Winter 2017, Issue #62

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