Jenna Rindo

press release: 2023 Winter Writers Reading Series: Jenna Rindo | 7 p.m. Jan. 25 | Lind Pavilion & Zoom

Jenna Rindo won the Council for Wisconsin Writers Lorine Niedecker Poetry Award for five poems published in various journals. Jenna worked for years as a pediatric RN at hospitals in Virginia, Florida and Wisconsin. She writes to better understand and appreciate the complications of the human body, mind and spirit. As a runner she trains for races from the 5K to the full marathon and often arranges words and make revisions in her head as she runs and bikes. Jenna now teaches Swahili, Hmong, Spanish, Urdu and Kurdish students at Oshkosh elementary schools. Along with her husband, Ron, she raised a blended family of five children on a 5-acre parcel of land in rural Pickett, tending orchards, gardens, hens and Shetland sheep.

Free (donations welcome); register for Zoom link at www.ShakeRagAlley.org or call the office. 

Since 2011 Shake Rag Alley has partnered with the Council for Wisconsin Writers (CWW), Wisconsin People & Ideas, and the Wisconsin Poet Laureate Commission through the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters to offer week-long residencies to their annual writing contest winners.

In the tradition established by Edenfred, the Terry Family Foundation’s artist residence in Madison, writers and poets are provided with a week of uninterrupted time to focus on a project of their choice.

Between the months of January through March, writers stay in Shake Rag Alley’s inspiring lodging facilities surrounded by the nurturing environment of historic Mineral Point’s artistic community. Visiting writers participate in readings and/or community outreach activities, including Wednesday evening Winter Writers Reading Series author talks and discussions.

In 2023 we are look forward to welcoming Wisconsin People & Ideas writing contest winners from the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters; the Council for Wisconsin Writers contest winners; and the Jade Ring Writing Contest winners from the Wisconsin Writers Association.

All 2023 readings and discussions will be offered virtually via Zoom with some select evenings featuring in-person options. All reading begin at 7 pm.