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Jennifer Chapis is a writer, editor, and teacher of writing. Her work is published or forthcoming in magazines and anthologies such as The New Yorker, McSweeney's, North American Review, American Letters & Commentary, Colorado Review, The Iowa Review, BOMB, and Best New Poets. Her work was recently showcased as part of a marketing project hosted by the world's largest flavor manufacturer, as well as recognized with the Arts & Letters Rumi Prize chosen by Mark Doty, and finalist for book awards including the National Poetry Series, Dorset Prize, Colorado Prize, Benjamin Saltman Award, New Issues Poetry Prize, and others. She's the author of a chapbook, The Beekeeper's Departure (Backwards City Poetry Series) and a limited-edition broadside, Poem as Salad (Center for Book Arts).
Jennifer teaches essay writing full-time at New York University, where she was recognized with the Outstanding Teaching Award. She has taught creative writing in the NYU in London Program and has served as guest lecturer at the Königin-Olga-Stift School in Stuttgart, Germany. She received her training from the Graduate Writing Programs at New York University and Arizona State University, where she was Poetry Editor and Art Editor of Washington Square and Hayden's Ferry Review, respectively. Vice President of Nightboat Books' Board of Directors, Jennifer co-founded the press with Kazim Ali in 2003 and served as executive editor until 2006. Jennifer lives in Brooklyn with her husband, fiction writer and screenwriter Josh Goldfaden.
