Jennifer Perrine

Author's Bio

Jennifer Perrine's first collection of poems, The Body Is No Machine (New Issues, 2007), won the 2008 Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award in Poetry. Her second book, In the Human Zoo (University of Utah Press, 2011), won the 2010 Agha Shahid Ali Prize. Perrine lives in Des Moines, Iowa, where she teaches creative writing and gender studies at Drake University.

Publications and Prizes

Books:

In the Human Zoo (University of Utah Press, 2011), The Body Is No Machine (New Issues Press, 2007)

Journals:

Antietam Review, Apalachee Review, Bellingham Review, Black Warrior Review, Bryant Literary Review, Crab Orchard Review, Cream City Review, Ellipsis, Green Mountains Review, Harpur Palate, Inkwell, Nimrod, Passages North, Paterson Literary Review, Quarterly West, Rattle, Red Rock Review, Redivider, Rhino Magazine, River Styx, Smartish Pace, Southern Poetry Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Sycamore Review, The Ledge, The Pinch, Third Coast, Unsplendid, Willow Springs

Prizes:

2011 Tor House Prize for Poetry; 2011 Third Coast Poetry Contest; 2010 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize, University of Utah Press; 2010 49th Parallel Poetry Award, Bellingham Review; 2010 Mérida Fellowship Award, U.S. Poets in Mexico; 2009 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize; 2008 Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award in Poetry, Southern Illinois University Carbondale; 2008 Fourth-Ever Poetry Contest, Black Warrior Review; 2008 Poetry Award, The Ledge; 2008 Grand Prize, The Taste ‘Test, Virginia Arts of the Book Center; 2008 Poetry Prize, Ellipsis

Personal Favorites

Favorite Authors:

Jeanette Winterson, Louise Erdrich, Mark Doty, Bob Hicok, Ann Patchett, Denise Duhamel

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Listing last updated: March 22, 2013

More Information

Listed as:

Poet

Gives readings?

Yes

Travels for readings?

Yes

Identifies as:

Asian American, Feminist, G/L/B/T, Mixed Race

Prefers to work with:

Adults, Any, At Risk Youth, Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender, Prisoners, Teachers, Teenagers, Veterans

Born in:

Reviews, Recordings, and Interviews