Jennifer Firestone
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Shearsman Titles
Holiday
About the author
Jennifer Firestone is the author of Waves, an investigation of death and "death-language" forthcoming from Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, which is part of a longer work entitled Gates & Fields. Her chapbooks from Flashes (2006), an excerpt from a long prose poem exploring money, war and urban culture, and snapshot (2004), which is a selection from her book Holiday, are both published by Sona Books. Her work has appeared innumerous journals, including How2, 14 Hills, 580 Split, Boog City, MIPOesias, Can We Have Our Ball Back, Dusie and Moria.
Jennifer is the co-editor of the anthology Letters To Poets: Conversations About Poetics, Politics and Community, which will be published by Saturnalia Books in Fall 2008, and she is the recipient of grant-supported writing residencies at the Ragdale Foundation, the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts and the Vermont Studio Center. Jennifer lives in Brooklyn with her partner and their infant twins. She is Poet in Residence at Eugene Lang College at the New School University.