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Jennifer Oakes Boyden is a poet and novelist. Her forthcoming book of poems, We Can't Tell If the Constellations Love Us, won the 42 Miles Poetry Prize, and is due to be released late 2023. Her novel, The Chief of Rally Tree, was awarded the Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature (Skyhorse Publishing). Her earlier books of poetry include The Declarable Future and The Mouths of Grazing Things (University of Wisconsin Press).Her work can be found in numerous journals and anthologies.
Jennifer is a former PEN Northwest Wilderness Writing Resident, a residency which invites one writer per year to live in an off-grid cabin for a year in a remote region in southern Oregon. While there, Jennifer met trees and boulders who became friends, kept her dogs away from cougars, and figured out how time works. Jennifer currently serves on the faculty of Eastside Preparatory School (where each of her students is her favorite student) and is a contributing editor for Solstice Literary Magazine. She lives in Seattle, WA. To contact Jennifer for readings, workshops, or talks, please contact her at JenniferOakes42 (at) gmail.com. |
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