Jennifer Militello

Jennifer Militello was born in New York City and grew up in Rhode Island. She is the author of Flinch of Song, winner of the Tupelo Press/Crazyhorse First Book Prize, and of the chapbook Anchor Chain, Open Sail (Finishing Line Press, 2006). Her poems have been widely published 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 at Lowell, and is currently a professor at River Valley Community College in Claremont, New Hampshire.