Jenny George is the author of The Dream of Reason (Copper Canyon Press, 2018). She is also a winner of the Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize and a recipient of fellowships from The Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Lannan Foundation, MacDowell, and Yaddo. Her poems have appeared in the New York Times, Poetry, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Narrative, Granta, Iowa Review, FIELD, Orion, Los Angeles Review of Books, Poem-A-Day at poets.org, and elsewhere. Jenny lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she works in social justice philanthropy. Her next book will be published by Copper Canyon in 2024.
- MFA in Poetry, Iowa Writers’ Workshop, University of Iowa
- BA in Human Ecology, College of the Atlantic
- The Dream of Reason. Copper Canyon Press, 2018.
- Lannan Foundation Fellowship, 2019.
- Fellowship, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, 2018.
- MacDowell Colony Fellow, 2015, 2018, 2020.
- “Discovery”/Boston Review Prize for Poetry, 2015.
- Yaddo Fellowship, 2015.