Jennifer K. Sweeney
Jennifer K. Sweeney is an American poet.
Biography
Sweeney was born in 1973 and grew up in Tolland, Connecticut.Sweeney holds an M.F.A. from Vermont College of Fine Arts and serves as assistant editor for DMQ Review. After teaching in San Francisco for twelve years, she relocated to Kalamazoo, Michigan, with her husband, poet Chad Sweeney. She now lives in California.
Sweeney is the author of four poetry collections, Foxlogic, Fireweed winner of the Backwaters Prize, Little Spells, How to Live on Bread and Music, winner of the 2009 James Laughlin Award and the 2009 Perugia Press Prize. Her first collection, Salt Memory won the 2006 Main Street Rag Poetry Award. Her poems have appeared in journals and magazines including Southern Review, Hunger Mountain, Crab Orchard, Spoon River and Passages North, where she won the 2009 Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize. Her honors include a Cultural Equities Grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission and a residency from Hedgebrook.
Honors and awards
- 2006 Main Street Rag Poetry Award
- 2009 Perugia Press Prize
- 2009 James Laughlin Award
- 2019 Backwaters Prize in Poetry
Works
Poems online
- "Happy People"., 2009.
- "How to Grow a Mushroom"., Issue 51.
- "How to Live on Bread and Music," "Comfort"., Summer 2008, 15.
- "33 Umbrellas"., May 2007.
- "How to Make Armor"., Issue 5.
- "What Call," "How to Make a Game of Waiting"., Issue 8.
- "The Bird Carver"., Issue 35.
- "Crooked Little Teeth," "The Game of Life"., Issue 17.