In this episode we sit down with Jennifer Schomburg Kanke. After spending most of her life in Ohio, now lives in Florida. Her work has recently appeared in New Ohio Review, Pleiades, Massachusetts Review, and Shenandoah. She is the winner of a Sheila-Na-Gig Editor’s Choice Award for Fiction. Her zine about her experiences undergoing chemotherapy for ovarian cancer, Fine, Considering, is available from Rinky Dink Press (2019). Her full-length poetry collection, The Swellest Wife Anyone Ever Had, about Appalachian Ohio, is available now from Kelsay Books. Her next book, Little Stone, Little Stone, about her experiences with ovarian cancer will be available from Sheila-Na-Gig Editions in the fall of 2026. She served as the voice of the Living with Wildlife series on WFSU radio and can now be found on YouTube hosting the Meter Cute Interviews podcast focusing on interviews with contemporary writers on Meter&Mayhem.

Webpage: http://www.jenniferschomburgkanke.com/

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@meterandmayhem

Substack (where she does writing prompts based on the interviews from her YouTube Channel): https://meterandmayhem.substack.com/

Link to where you can order the anthology with her prize winning short story "A
String of Beads": https://sheilanagigblog.com/sheila-na-gig-inc/sheila-na-gig-editions-quick-shopping/a-string-of-beads-other-stories/

Link for ordering The Swellest Wife Anyone Ever Had: https://a.co/d/3vYphFA

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