Nancy Jorgensen is a Wisconsin writer, educator, and musician. Her most recent book is a middle-grade sports biography, “Gwen Jorgensen: USA’s First Olympic Gold Medal Triathlete” (Meyer & Meyer). Her essays appear in Huffington Post, Ms. Magazine, The Offing, River Teeth, Wisconsin Public Radio, and elsewhere. Find out more at NancyJorgensen.weebly.com She is mother to Olympic gold medalist Gwen Jorgensen, and writer and sijo poetry expert Elizabeth Jorgensen.
Books
Selected work
- Nonfiction
31
- Hybrid
1
Clickbait is the key to better essays
Cleaver Magazine, 2025
Alias Disclosure
Does It Have Pockets, 2025
A Short History of Shattered Molds
Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine, 2025
My Husband's Medical Team Was Failing Him. Then A Stranger Stepped In And Said 6 Words That Saved His Life.
HuffPost, 2025
Tragedies and Disappointments of a Happy Youth
Chaotic Merge, 2025
Uncle Al’s Compendium for Creativity
2025
Grand Obsessions
JMWW Journal, 2024
The Conjurers
Anodyne Magazine, 2024
Raising a gold medalist: A parent's playbook for the unplanned Olympian - Wisconsin Life
Wisconsin Public Radio, 2024
Why I Wear Black
The Closed Eye Open, 2024
Astonishing Truth: Abortion is Everyone’s Beeswax - The AutoEthnographer
The AutoEthnographer, 2024
Wood Shedding Sound and Story
The Artisanal Writer, 2024
How to Triumph with Only One Shoe
Esoterica Magazine, 2024
Domestique — The Under Review
The Under Review, 2024
The Fastest—and Slowest—Place on Earth
The Mantelpiece, 2024
How to Weave a Caned Chair or a Friendship by N.L. Jorgensen
JMWW Journal, 2023
Title IX’s Generational Divide: Mother Denied, Daughter Empowered,Title IX’s Generational Divide: Mother Denied, Daughter Empowered - Ms. Magazine
Ms Magazine, 2023
Position
The Offing, 2023
Babies in Bloom
Wild Roof Journal, 2023
Not the same old dance: An ode to driving stick shift - Wisconsin Life
Wisconsin Public Radio, 2023
Authors in the Schools: Motivating and Inspiring the Next Generation of Writers
2023
A Piano Lesson with Vincent VanGogh
2023
Can Parents Create an Olympic Champion?
Vine Leaves Press, 2023
Nesters
Portage Magazine, 2023
Baked In - A craft essay by Nancy Jorgensen
Six Ways Violin Helped My Daughter Win Olympic Gold
SBO (School Band and Orchestra), 2023
How to Change the World in Fifty Years
Words & Sports Quarterly, 2023
Understanding and Submitting Sijo
Lit Mag News, 2022
Lost Time
Minerva Rising, 2022
How to Make Biscuits and Babies
STREETCAKE, 2022
Cut From the Same Cloth
Madison Magazine, 2022
Little Known Truths About Lilies of the Valley
Wisconsin Public Radio - Wisconsin Life, 2022