Jennifer Schomburg Kanke

Jennifer Schomburg Kanke lives in Florida where she edits confidential documents. Her work appears in New Ohio Review, the Massachusetts Review, Prairie Schooner, and Salamander. Her zine about her experiences undergoing chemotherapy for ovarian cancer, Fine, Considering, is available from Rinky Dink Press. She serves as a reader for The Dodge.

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Chapter 14: Put Down The Knife from A Pleasant Loitering Journey

Jennifer Schomburg Kanke  | 
Issue 72.1 Fall 2023

Goddesses do not take a knife to their days. They neither dissect nor disembowel the memories behind them and the prophecies or plans in front. There are a million daily decisions that, in their addition, will add up to the youness of you. Taking a knife to each day, looking cause and effect in the […]

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Wordsworth, Chemotherapy, and Becoming a Goddess: A Conversation with Jennifer Schomburg Kanke

Conversations | Jennifer Schomburg Kanke

Jennifer Schomburg Kanke, author of A Pleasant Loitering Journey, speaks about her writing process and inspirations for her novel in a conversation with Shenandoah intern Sam Masser. Read Chapter 14 of A Pleasant Loitering Journey, featured in Volume 72.1 of Shenandoah here. Sam: Thanks for talking with me today, and congratulations on making it into the […]