Jenean McBrearty

Jenean McBrearty, "griterary" fiction writer of the weird and quirky, is a graduate of San Diego State University, and a former community college instructor who taught Political Science and Sociology. She won the University of Kentucky English Department's Award for Graduate Non-fiction in 2011, and a Silver Pen Award for her short story, Red is Not Your Color. Her how-to book, Writing Beyond the Self: How To Write Creative Non-fiction That Gets Published, was published 2018 by Vine Leaves Press. Her fiction/non-fiction, essays, book reviews, and photographs have been published in over two hundred-fifty in print and on-line venues. She now resides in Kentucky, writes full time, and spends her free time pretending she's a princess, or, on cloudy days, Norma Desmond. A fan of the Royals, her Queen Elizabeth plate collection is impressive.