Small Bike, Big Trip, Long Marriage
Jennifer D. Munro’s essays and stories have been published nationally and internationally in over sixty anthologies and literary journals, including North American Review, Zyzzyva, Massachusetts Review, Harpur Palate, Boulevard, Best of Best American Erotica, and The Bigger the Better the Tighter the Sweater: 21 Funny Women on Beauty and Body Image. Whether fiction or nonfiction, J.D. offers a candid yet often humorous exploration of sex and the sexes, with a quirky yet earthy take on women’s issues such as body image, infertility, gender roles, and marriage.
J.D.’s published fiction is collected in The Erotica Writer’s Husband & Other Stories. She is completing her memoir, Not Suitable for Children: Marriage, Miscarriage, and Motorcycling, about her ten-year journey to become a mother and the 10,000-mile motorcycle ride she took, instead. Recently, she works on recounting her most hazardous trip yet: navigating the foster care system as she became the twelfth mother but first “forever mom” to a challenging six-year-old boy. She brings her characteristic humor and irreverence to this new role and to her writing about her unconventional family. Her writing projects have been supported by various Washington and Oregon State arts commissions and fellowships.
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J.D. grew up in Hawaii as a fourth-generation islander but now lives in Seattle. Although her grandfather slept through the bombing of Pearl Harbor not far from his bedroom window, she’s an insomniac who writes when she can’t sleep. Her nonfiction sometimes draws upon her unique childhood in Hawaii, where her great-uncle frequently portrayed the murder victim on the television series Hawaii Five-O (“He was the one in the body bag,” her mother says). From their Honolulu rooftop, her newlywed parents admired a spectacular false sunset produced by a distant nuclear bomb test; this hydrogen bomb was sixty-seven times more powerful than the atom bomb that leveled Nagasaki. A microscopic egg that became J.D. bathed in this toxic glow, which might account for her unique perception of the world (as well as her strange electrical current that shorts out many cars and computers).
See what J.D.’s blogging about on munrojdblog.wordpress.com
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Contact Jennifer D. Munro at ginproductions at hotmail.com.
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