Jennifer Conlon (they/them)

Jennifer Conlon is the author of Taking to Water (2023). They are from North Carolina and earned their MFA in poetry from Arizona State University.They were awarded the 2015 Aleida Rodriguez Memorial Award in Creative Writing and the 2017 Katharine C. Turner Prize from the Academy of American Poets. More recently, Jennifer won the 2021 Boulevard Poetry Contest for Emerging Poets, and in 2022, the Autumn House Poetry Prize. Their book, Taking to Water, was selected by Carl Phillips. Their poems have been published by Bayou Magazine, Juked, Bennington Review, DIALOGIST, Threadcount, and elsewhere. Jennifer lives in Tempe, Arizona, where they teach composition and poetry at Arizona State University.