Jennifer Perrine

9984 SW Garrett St
Tigard, OR 97223

Author's Bio

Jennifer Perrine is the author of No Confession, No Mass, winner of the 2016 Publishing Triangle Audre Lorde Award and the 2014 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry; In the Human Zoo, recipient of the 2010 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize; and The Body Is No Machine, winner of the 2008 Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award in Poetry. For more information, visit www.jenniferperrine.org.

Publications and Prizes

Prizes Won: 
2016 Publishing Triangle Audre Lorde Award; 2014 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry; 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

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, Naturalists/Environmentalists, Prisoners, Teachers, Teenagers, Veterans
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Last updated: Aug 13, 2016