Poet
Publications & Prizes
- Best of the Net 2024 Nomination, Emerge Literary Journal, for "Odd, Beautiful Things."
- 2023 Eric Hoffer Award Honorable Mention; First Horizon Award Finalist; Grand Prize Short List for Unsymmetrical Body.
- 2023 Boston Authors Club Julia Ward Howe Award Finalist, Unsymmetrical Body.
- 2022 New England Poetry Club Amy Lowell Prize- selected by Moira Linehan, "This Poem Can't Poem Today" https://nepoetryclub.org/jennifer-edward...
- Longlist for Briefly Write Poetry Prize 2022 https://brieflywrite.com/2022/10/23/poet...
- 2021 Poetry Super Highway Contest, 6th Place for the poem "Mom was Always Reaching" (reading online)
- 2020 New England Poetry Club Amy Lowell Prize Honorable Mention, selected by Dzvinia Orlowsky. “I’m Trying” https://nepoetryclub.org/jennifer-edward... Winners reading at https://nepoetryclub.org/september-2020-...
- PUSHCART PRIZE XLIV Nomination (XLIV) by the NH Poetry Society: Poem“I Don’t Know What to Do With This” published in The Poets’ Touchstone Vol 61. No. 1 (2018) https://psnhtouchstone.files.wordpress.c...
- NH Poetry Society Member Contest (Feb 2017) Honorable mention, Judge Mary Lewis Sheehan, announced in The Poets’ Touchstone Vol 60, No. 2 (Winter 2017/Spring 2018)
- Current MFA in writing (poetry) at Bennington Writing Seminars- coursework w/Michael Dumanis, Craig Teicher
- Currently on PSNH Board as Events Coordinator.
- Conferences/support
- VCFA Postgraduate Writers' Conference (2023) w/Patricia Smith
- Colgate Writers Conference scholarship (2022) w/Jules Gibbs
- Palm Beach Poetry Festival, Thomas Lux Poetry Fellowship (2021) w/Kevin Prufer
- Frost Place Poetry Conference (2020) w/Rajiv Mohabir
Memberships: New Hampshire Poetry Club, New England Poetry Club
Curating/reading/editing for: Button Poetry, Mud Season Review Poetry reader (previously), The Poets' Touchstone
Photography published in Making Waves: A West MIchigan Literary Review by Ludington Writers.