Jennifer Givhan Reviews

Jennifer Givhan's debut poetry collection Landscape using Headless Mama won the 2015 Pleiades Editors’ Prize, and her second poetry collection Protection Spell won inclusion at the 2016 Miller Williams Poetry Series, made by former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins, and will be published in February 2017 with University of Arkansas Press. Her honors include a 2015 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Poetry, a 2010 PEN/Rosenthal Emerging Voices Fellowship, the 2015 Frost Place Latin@ Scholarship, the 2015 Lascaux Review Prize, the 2014 Pinch Prize, along with a 2012 National Latino Writer’s Conference pupil, and her work has appeared in Best of the Web 2015, Best New Poets 2013, AGNI, TriQuarterly, Crazyhorse, Blackbird, The Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Indiana Review, and Southern Humanities Review. She earned her MFA from Warren Wilson College and her Master's from California State Fullerton. She teaches composition at the University of New Mexico and lives in Albuquerque with her husband and two kids. She is Poetry Editor at Tinderbox Poetry Journal and teaches online workshops in The Poetry Barn.

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