Jane Hertenstein Personal Statement
“Since I quit an editing job five years ago to work on my craft I have arranged my schedule around writing. I am live-in staff at a community homeless shelter, which provides for my room and board. In exchange I get up at 4:30 a.m. to cook breakfast for about 300 people and then spend from 10 until 3 writing. I also facilitate a creative writing workshop for a group of women at the shelter.
I’ve written books that have been widely reviewed. One of my non-fiction projects (Orphan Girl) received a two-page center page spread in the Chicago Tribune Sunday book section. I’ve attended Breadloaf on waitstaff and received the Amanda Davis Scholarship to attend the Wesleyan Writers Conference. In 2009 I participated in the Sewanee Writers Conference. My short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in: Cantaraville, Rosebud, Word Riot, Flashquake, The Write Room, and the Tonopah Review.”
