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Jennifer Chapis is a writer, editor, and teacher of writing. Author of a chapbook, The Beekeeper's Departure (Backwards City Poetry Series 2007) and a limited-edition broadside, Poem as Tossed Salad (Center for Book Arts 2002), Jennifer is widely published in magazines and anthologies such as Arts & Letters, Best New Poets, Colorado Review, The Iowa Review, McSweeney's, Online Writing: Best of the First Ten Years, Verse, and others. Her work was recently recognized with the Rumi Prize in Poetry chosen by Mark Doty, the Florida Review Editor's Prize, GSU Review Poetry Prize, and finalist for book awards including the New Issues Poetry Prize, Benjamin Saltman Award, the Colorado Prize, the Dorset Prize, and others. Her poetry was showcased for a full year in 2008 as part of a $100,000 creative marketing project hosted by the world's largest flavor manufacturer.
Jennifer 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. Recipient of New York University's Outstanding Teaching Award, she is a faculty member in the Expository Writing Program at NYU. She has taught creative writing in the NYU in London Program and has served as a guest lecturer of creative writing at the Königin-Olga-Stift School in Stuttgart, Germany and the Otto-Hahn-High School in Ludwigsburg, Germany. Jennifer is a Founding Editor of Nightboat Books. She lives with her husband, fiction writer Josh Goldfaden in Brooklyn, and is currently at work on a screenplay with co-writer Susan Brennan.
