Janet Kay Jensen Explained
Janet Kay Jensen is an American author. She was born April 3, 1951, in Berkeley, California. She earned the following degrees: B.S.Utah State University (Logan, Utah) and M.A. Northwestern University (Evanston, IL). Jensen resides in northern Utah.[1]
Jensen's novel Don’t You Marry the Mormon Boys was awarded third prize at the 2004 Irreantum fiction contest by the Association for Mormon Letters.[2]
Jensen's novel has grown to include an international audience. A feature article in an online Brisbane, Australia news link conducted an interview to discuss the book and current events.http://www.australia.to/story/0,25197,23040466-981,00,00.html
Publications
- Novel
- Don’t You Marry the Mormon Boys (Bonneville Books, Cedar Fort Inc. 2007) [3]
- Nonfiction
- (with Shaunda Kennedy Wenger) The Book Lover’s Cookbook: Recipes Inspired by Celebrated Works of Literature and the Passages that Feature Them (Wenger & Jensen, Ballantine Books, 2003) [4]
- Contributing author
- Writing Secrets: A Comprehensive Guide to Writing Fiction & Nonfiction in the LDS Market (LDStorymakers 2005)
- The Magic of Stories: Literature-Based Language Intervention (Strong & North, Thinking Publications 1996)
- News: Voice Male: Careers by Day, A Cappella by Night . Meridian Magazine . January 11, 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070608202216/http://www.meridianmagazine.com/arts/040706voicemail.html . 2007-06-08 . dead .
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Famous Mormon Writers and Authors . Famous Mormons . 2008-06-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080607054607/http://famousmormons.net/auth2.html . 2008-06-07 . dead .
- News: Mormon fiction contest winners announced . . 2004-07-31 . 2008-06-10 . 2016-03-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303224232/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=NewsLibrary&p_multi=DSNB&d_place=DSNB&p_theme=newslibrary2&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=10431B46D331263E&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM . live .
- News: Book reviews: Don't You Marry the Mormon Boys . . 2008-05-07 . 2008-06-10 . 2011-07-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110714114713/http://mormontimes.com/ME_books.php?bID=35 . live .
- News: Well-read & well-fed . . 2003-12-24 . 2008-06-10 . 2005-05-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20050507125104/http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,575038789,00.html . live .
