Jennifer L. Knox’s poems have appeared five times in the Best American Poetry series as well as the anthologies Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to Present and Best American Erotic Poems, and publications such as the New York Times, the New Yorker, and American Poetry Review. Her nonfiction writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, the Inquisitive Eater, Press Play, and the Best American Poetry Blog. From 2016–2017, she developed and curated the crowdsourced poetry project, Iowa Bird of Mouth, which was supported by the Iowa Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her first books are available from Bloof: A Gringo Like Me, Drunk by Noon, The Mystery of the Hidden Driveway, and Days of Shame & Failure, and her most recent book, Crushing It, was published by Copper Canyon Press.
Website: jenniferlknox.com (Photo credit: Lisa Hovis)