Bio

Tommy Jenkins studied film at Columbia University and Fiction Writing at North Carolina State University, where he earned his MFA in 2007. He is the author of a graphic novel, Drawing the Vote (Abrams Books, 2020), and co-author of Writing Movies (Bloomsbury, 2008). Mr. Jenkins’s short fiction has appeared in The Raleigh Review and Gut Cult magazine; his short films have screened at film festivals and Come Back to the Five and Dime, Buster Keaton, Buster Keaton (1998) won best comedy at the Polo Ralph Lauren/New Line Columbia Film Festival. Mr. Jenkins is a lecturer in the Department of English at North Carolina State University, teaching screenwriting.