In 2015, on a road trip to visit my family in Canada, Google Maps took my husband and me straight to the site of the capture, two hours earlier, of escaped murderer David Sweat. I wrote about that, and then I wrote about a whole bunch of other things, and it became an essay about my vicarious trauma as a…
News
A New Website! And Updates from the World of Monarchs and Mammograms
I have some updates to share about both mammograms and monarch butterflies, but first, a happy announcement. The judges for the Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund have awarded me a grant to afford me time to work on my book-in-progress, One Canary Sings. The fund bequeaths small grants to feminists in the arts, and I am honored and energized…
The Butterfly Effect
I’m pleased to announce that “The Butterfly Effect”–which was first published in Creative Nonfiction, where it won the Robert Fragasso Animal Advocate Award for the Best Creative Nonfiction Essay About Animals, and then went on to win a Pushcart Prize–is now available online. Click here to read about monarch butterflies, the Butterfly Lady of Butterfly Town, USA, and so much more.
5 Questions from Orion’s Scott Gast
“I started out researching an article about mammograms, and in the process I uncovered all of this other mind-blowing information about Breast Cancer Awareness Month and the pink ribbon campaign. I even created a file called ‘Hypocrisy, Doublespeak, and Conflicts of Interest.’ Later, that file got subdivided into three separate files: ‘Monsanto,’ ‘American Cancer Society,’ and ‘Pinkwashing.’ Read more…
Exposed: The Mammogram Myth and the Pinkwashing of America
I had not yet turned 40 when I read the startling statistic that for every 2000 women who submit to ten years of annual mammograms, one will have her life prolonged and ten will be over-diagnosed and treated unnecessarily. But two years later, when my nurse practitioner urged me in for a baseline, I acquiesced. A call-back led to an…
A Pushcart Prize!
Well. I am downright delighted to report the happy news that my Creative Nonfiction essay, “The Butterfly Effect,” has won the coveted Pushcart Prize and will be published in The Pushcart Prize XXXVII: Best of the Small Presses, coming out in November of this year. Pulitzer Prize winning poet Charles Wright says, “A Pushcart Prize selection is one of the very best…
A Pushcart Prize Nomination!
I’m delighted to announce that Creative Nonfiction has nominated my essay, “The Butterfly Effect,” for a Pushcart Prize. Described as “the most honored literary project in America,” the Pushcart recognizes the best of the small presses. Since its inception in 1976, winners have been published in an annual anthology. This year’s winners will be announced in the spring. “The Butterfly…
This Canary Has Something to Say
Not long ago, the Environmental Health Strategy Center, a member of the Alliance for a Clean and Healthy Maine, sought people willing to be interviewed about why toxic chemical reforms are important to them. I volunteered, and this interview is the result: Interview with the Environmental Health Strategy Center
Big Talk Interview about One Canary Sings
In April, 2010, after my book in progress won honorable mention in the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance’s Maine Literary Awards, Suzanne Murphy invited me to join her and Dr. Caroline Teschke for an interview on Big Talk, their acclaimed WMPG radio talk show. Here is that interview: [audio:https://jenniferlunden.com/Audio/bigtalkinterview.mp3|titles=Big Talk]