TOM JENKS is the cofounder and editor of Narrative Magazine. He is a former editor of Esquire, Gentlemen’s Quarterly, and The Paris Review, and a senior editor at Scribners.
MY READING: JAME’S BALDWIN’S “SONNY'S BLUES”
A POETICS OF FICTION
Six Chapters on the Art of Imaginative Prose
Six Chapters on the Art of Imaginative Prose
AMERICAN SHORT STORY MASTERPIECES
edited by Raymond Carver and Tom Jenks
edited by Raymond Carver and Tom Jenks
ERNEST HEMINGWAY’S THE GARDEN OF EDEN
THE WRITER’S LIFE
from the Diaries of the World’s Great Writers, edited with Carol Edgarian
from the Diaries of the World’s Great Writers, edited with Carol Edgarian
NARRATIVE
Tom Jenks has given classes at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, the Creative Writing Programs at University of California (Irvine and Davis), Washington University in St. Louis, the Squaw Valley and Bennington Summer Writing Workshops, and, privately, in New York, Boston, Washington, DC, Chicago, Denver, Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.
RELATED WORKS
His writing has appeared in Harper’s, Ploughshares, Vanity Fair, Esquire, The American Scholar, Five Points, the Los Angeles Times, Conde Nast’s Traveler, The Guardian, Manhattan, Inc., Missouri Review, Columbia, Reasons to Believe, The Encyclopedia of Literary Biography, and elsewhere.
For BBC’s American Visions: Montana Cowboys, a one-hour program on rural life in America and part of an extended series examining the United States, Tom Jenks helped drive three hundred feral horses across thousands of acres of rugged terrain, in and out of towns, across an interstate highway, and past a forty-foot cliff and other dangers to a summer pasture. It’s an exhilarating and terrifying ride that provides a metaphor for Montana and America today. Tom scripted and narrated the program.
