Jen Parkhill “JP”
Bio
Jen Parkhill “JP”, a first generation Cuban-American artist and proud member of the LGBTQIA+ community. Cat dad, writer, filmmaker, actor, friend, and graduate of the Tisch School of the Arts, NYU.
Hurling through time.
@jenparkhill
Achievements (9)
Stories (32/0)
- Top Story - April 2024
- Runner-Up in #200 Challenge
marked by caninesRunner-Up in #200 Challenge
I came out of the womb in a birthing squat. My pen is the fruit of my life’s labor — the written story. To blow the lid off my own life and expose it, whether through fiction, poetry, or essay, is the only way I know how not to feel alone when the going gets bad.
By Jen Parkhill “JP”3 months ago in Pride
- Top Story - December 2023
I Was Going to be an Actress.Top Story - December 2023
I was eating molten cheese, the kind that comes out of a spout, from Taco Bell. I was a high school senior, hopeful actress, crashing at my father’s business partner’s pool house on weekends so I could attend back to back Friday/Saturday acting classes at the Bobbie Chance Studio.
By Jen Parkhill “JP”4 months ago in Pride
- Runner-Up in the Snafu Senryu Challenge
- Second Place in Next Great [American] Novel Challenge
Crying WolfSecond Place in Next Great [American] Novel Challenge
I stepped out of the coroner’s office and onto the sidewalk. Into the dark. Into the wind. October in the city of angels. Headlights bled by on the street, a bleach-like shock to my pupils. Wind kicked up soot from the gutter. I squinted. Turned my head so I wouldn’t taste it. My face felt swollen. The inside of my head, a deafening thud. An anchor sinking from ribs down into my gut.
By Jen Parkhill “JP”8 months ago in Fiction
- Runner-Up in the Short and Sweet Challenge
Unfreshman
Meet Carnie. She’s a 28 year-old college freshman starting her life over after breaking up with her loser boyfriend and moving across the country to pursue her dream of an education in the arts at NYU. She’s spent a decade in the school of hard knocks in Hollywood pursuing a career as an actress and now she’s finally ready to grow up and learn to take herself seriously as a writer — The only trouble is she’ll be learning to write alongside 18 year olds virgins dripping with privilege, private school educations, are encyclopedias when it comes to greek mythology, can’t hold their liquor, are navigating their sexualities, and don’t know how to wash their own laundry. Will she find out she has more in common with these kids than she thinks???
By Jen Parkhill “JP”9 months ago in Humor
