About Jennifer Companik

Jennifer Companik is a freelance fiction writer and essayist of South American descent. She holds a Masters of Creative Writing from Northwestern University. Her work has appeared inSmith magazine's It All changed In An Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and ObscureNewcity magazine, and in the expanded paperback edition of Larry Doyle's I Love You, Beth Cooper.

Men Behaving Nobly

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More than 100 volunteers—many unemployed—help to renovate a local food pantry.

Samson Versus the Developed World

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Why we should still respect physical strength in men.

Gallantry’s Origins

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Jennifer Companik wonders what drives a man to lend a lady his coat on a chilly day.