Amy Lou Jenkins is a writer, literary critic, speaker, and educator, and nurse from Wisconsin. Amy Lou Jenkins' first book Every Natural Fact: Five Seasons of Open-Air Parenting will be released by Holy Cow! Press

in May of 2010. She teaches college and adult nonfiction writing at Milwaukee area colleges, universities, and adult education venues. She pens a quarterly review of books for the Sierra Club.Read articles published at Earth Island Journal and Grit. More at AmyLouJenkins.com and www.anthologiesonline.com.

What others are saying about Every Natural Fact:

Braiding together history, memoir, gentle parenting guidance, and superb nature writing, Jenkins' prose illuminates the details of ordinary life"?Susan Cheever Author of American Bloomsbury

"If you combined the lyricism of Annie Dillard, the vision of Aldo Leopold, and the gentle but tough-minded optimism of Frank McCourt, you might come close to Amy Lou Jenkins, a writer who obliterates the distinction between regional writing and actual, honest-to-god writing. I, for one, would follow her anywhere"?Tom Bissell author of The Father of All Things

"Amy Lou Jenkins writes with complexity about the dance human beings do with nature, and with one another...She puts together pieces of history, natural history, and parenting to make a touching and memorable whole. The whole thing rings true" ?Michael Finley, judge of the Ellis Henderson Outdoor Writing Award.

"Her vivid imagery mixes a naturalist's precision with a spiritual seeker's poetry" ?Robert Wake, author and editor of Cambridge Book Review Press and co-judge for the X.J. Kennedy Award for Nonfiction

Amy's essays about walking natural landscapes with her son have recently placed in several national writing contests and are published in The Flint Hills Review, Literal Latte, The Florida Review, and Rosebud.