Bio

Jennifer Reeser is the author of seven books of poetry, including "An Alabaster Flask," winner of the Word Press First Book Prize, which former Paris Review editor, X.J. Kennedy, said "...ought to have been a candidate for a Pulitzer." Her book, "Sonnets from the Dark Lady" was a finalist for the Donald Justice Prize, a collection which revolved around a series written in Elizabethan style, as a woman's answer to the Dark Lady sonnets of William Shakespeare. Her book "The Lalaurie Horror" debuted at #1 on Amazon's Epic Best Sellers list and remained on the list for three years. Her book "Indigenous" received Best Poetry Book of 2019 from the Englewood Review of Books. "Publishers Weekly" called its sequel, "Strong Feather," "...an excellent collection...full of artistry and meaning." 

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Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies, including The Hudson Review's seminal "Poets Translate Poets," Longman's college textbook, "An Introduction to Poetry," and "Christian Poetry in America Since 1940," winner of the 2023 Christianity Book Award — Culture & The Arts. Her work is featured in Random House London's "Everyman's Library" series.

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Her translations, literary reviews, and original poetry and fiction have appeared widely in magazines and journals throughout the world, including POETRY (Chicago), The Hudson Review (New York), RATTLE, Levure Litteraire and Recours Au Poeme (Paris), SALT (Australia), First Things, and Able Muse. She has been a regular poetry contributor to William F. Buckley, Jr.'s magazine, National Review, since 2007. Her translations of Russian poet, Anna Akhmatova, are approved by Akhmatova's heir and authorized by Akhmatova's agency in Moscow. 

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She has been nominated seven times for the Pushcart Prize, and is a three-time winner of RATTLE's "Poets Respond" Prize. She has received the New England Award and the Lyric Memorial Prize from The Lyric magazine and has been featured author at the POETRY Foundation website, Goodreads, and Verse Daily.  Former president of the Poetry Society, Dr. Alfred Dorn, honored her work with the Innovative Form Award from the World Order of Narrative and Formalist Poets, for her invention of the Cretic Hymn form. She divides her time between her estate in Gulf Coastal Louisiana, and her home on Cherokee reservation land in Indian Country, Oklahoma.