Tina Jenkins Bell
About
Tina Jenkins Bell is a published fiction writer, playwright, academic, freelance journalist, and literary activist. Bell has had numerous short works published in journals and anthologies, including “To the Moon and Back,” Hypertext Journal, which was nominated for an Illinois Arts Council award and “Swimming,” Jet Fuel Review, which was selected as best small fiction by Somber Press and also recently nominated as best short fiction on the web. More recently, “The Visit,” Re-Living Mythology received a favorable write up in the Publisher’s Weekly. In 2023 National League of American Pen, Inc. competition, Bell’s work was a Top Ten Finalist. A playwright, Bell’s two plays, Cut the Baby in Half and A Conversation with Lorraine Hansberry and Gwendolyn Brooks, a collaborative piece were produced as staged readings at the Green Line Performing Arts Center and the Chicago Humanities Festival, respectively. Bell conducts writing workshops regionally. She is a co-founder of FLOW (For Love of Writing) and has collaborated with numerous writing and arts organizations, authors, and bookstores to offer literary programming in Chicago’s underserved communities. Bell currently working on the novel, Down and Dirty in Kosciusko, Mississippi.
