Jennifer Militello

Jennifer Militello was born in New York City and grew up in Rhode Island. Her first book, Flinch of Song, won the Tupelo Press First Book Prize and was published in 2009. She is also the author of the chapbook Anchor Chain, Open Sail (Finishing Line Press, 2006). Her new manuscript, Body Thesaurus, was named a finalist for the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award by Marilyn Hacker.

A Ruskin Art Club Poetry Award recipient and five-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Militello has been published widely in such journals as The Kenyon Review, The New Republic, The North American Review, The Paris Review, and The Virginia Quarterly Review, and anthologized in Best New Poets 2008. Her work has been awarded grants and fellowships from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Writers at Work, and the Millay Colony for the Arts.

She has taught at Brown University, The Rhode Island School of Design, and The University of Massachusetts Lowell, and is currently a professor at River Valley Community College. She lives in Goffstown, New Hampshire.