Jenni Nance

Biography

Jenni Nance is a 5th generation native Floridian now living in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Her writing has appeared in Eckerd Review, Spry Literary Journal, Sweet: A Literary Confection, Creative Loafing, and elsewhere. Her writing has been honored by the Knocky Parker Creative Nonfiction Award, the Eckerd Review Poetry Prize, Creative Loafing's Fiction Contest (Judge's Pick), and the Atlantic Center for the Arts Fellowship #171 with Chris Abani. Other writings have been nominated for Best of the Net, AWP Intro Journals Award, and Creative Loafing's Poetry Contest (Top Ten). 

Jenni's two major book projects are Yellow Dragon, a Florida historical fiction centered around huanglongbing (HLB), also known as the citrus "greening" disease, and Breaking Beautiful Things, a collection of lyric and personal essays that explores themes of transgenerational trauma.

As a future clinical mental health counselor and a proponent of expressive arts therapy, Jenni believes reading and writing have the power to save lives. She loves working with young adults in summer writing camps, adult learners in public writing spaces, and, of course, Tech students who are developing critical writing skills for both their personal and professional lives.