Shearsman Books

Shearsman Titles

New & Selected Poems

About the author

Jennifer Clement studied English Literature and Anthropology at New York University and French Literature in Paris. Clement is the author of the memoir Widow Basquiat, which made the "Booksellers' Choice" list in the U.K., and 2 novels A True Story Based on Lies, which was a finalist in the Orange Prize for Fiction in the United Kingdom, and The Poison That Fascinates (Canongate, 2008). She is also the author of several books of poetry: The Next Stranger (with an introduction by W.S. Merwin), Newton’s Sailor, and Lady of the Broom, each published in bilingual editions in Mexico. Clement's work has been translated into 8 languages.

Jennifer Clement was awarded Mexico's prestigious "Sistema Nacional de Creadores" grant and was honoured with the UK's Canongate Prize for her story A Salamander-Child. In 2001 she was also the recipient of a US-Mexico Fund for Culture (FONCA, Fundación Cultural Bancomer, the Rockefeller Foundation) grant for the San Miguel Poetry Week, which she founded in 1997 with her sister, Barbara Sibley. 

Clement's work has appeared in numerous anthologies including The Best of The American Voice. Akzente, The Times, The Herald, Poetry London, The Nation, The American Poetry Review and The Independent Magazine, among others, have published her stories, poems and essays.

Jennifer Clement lives in Mexico City. Visit her website here.