Jenny Bitner

Jenny Bitner’s fiction has been published in Mississippi Review, The Sun, Fence, Corium and PANK. Her story “The Pamphleteer” was selected by Dave Eggers for Best American Nonrequired Reading and incorporated into an opera by The Paul Bailey Ensemble. Her nonfiction has appeared in Utne Reader, To-Do List, The San Francisco Bay Guardian and Men’s Health. She organized Irrational Exuberance, a cross-genre series combining music, visual art, writing, performance art and lectures, and a literary reading series, The Basement Reading Series. Pine Press published a chapbook of her poetry entitled Mother. She has finished a novel, Here Is a Game We Can Play, and is seeking a publisher. She earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of Virginia.

Remembering Rin Kelly

Rin Kelly was a brilliant journalist and fiction writer that we lost much too early. I had the pleasure of having her as a student and getting to know her as a friend.   Her mother ...
Charles Louis Gabriel (1857-1927), medical practitioner and photographer.

The Hospital: A Game for Lovers

Read this story in print as part of Jenny Bitner's debut novel "Here Is a Game We Could Play," available now from Acre Books/University of Chicago Press. I came to the hospital because you are ...

Hansel & Me

Read this story in print as part of Jenny Bitner's debut novel "Here Is a Game We Could Play," available now from Acre Books/University of Chicago Press. This morning our father, the logger, sent us ...