Jenny Benjamin

Divorced

I taught middle school and high school writing and literature to at-risk, inner city youth for twelve years. Now, I run a small freelance writing business out of my home where I mainly write educational material, but also more creative stuff. My first novel, THIS MOST AMAZING, came out in 2013. I am teaching part-time at NOVA Tech high school, a charter school for inner-city students in Milwaukee.

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University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 1995-97, MA in English with emphasis on creative writing

Marquette University, 1990-94, BA in English and Anthropology

I worked for a summer at a bed & breakfast in the Black Hills in South Dakota. I studied in London in 1993 & traveled in Europe that year. I went to a writing workshop in Spoleto, Italy in 2000. My girls and I are a saving money to visit Villetta Barrea, Italy (my family comes from there & we have recently been in touch with cousins who live there).

Kids, wonderful friends, family near by & writing & making art

writing, reading, walking, started painting

Mr. Miller & Mr. Hoffman

Run track all four years