Jeanine Stevens

Jeanine Stevens studied poetry in the Creative Writing Program at U.C. Davis, has an MA in Anthropology and a Doctorate in Education. She is the recipient of the MacGuffin Poet Hunt, and a finalist for the William Stafford Award. She has other first place awards from Ekphrasis, The Bay Area Poet's Coalition and Mendocino Coat Writer's Conference. Her work has appeared in Evansville Review, Poet Lore, North Dakota Review, Pearl, Sentinel Quarterly, Bardsong, Cider Press Review, Alehouse, Perfume River and others. She is the author of "Sailing on Milkweed (Cherry Grove Collections). Her second book, "Inheritor," is forthcoming from Future Cycle Press.

Her latest chapbook, "Needle in the Sea," was published by Tiger's Eye Press. She is a member of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. Jeanine has read her poetry in Sacramento, San Frisco, Mendocino and Grass Valley California, Zionsville and Lawrenceburg Indiana, and most recently in London. She is currently working on a presentation about the earliest Celtic Bards. Besides writing, Jeanine enjoys collage. She has exhibited her work at the Red Dot Gallery and the Sacramento Poetry Center. She has used some of her collages to illustrate her poetry. Raised in Indiana, she now divides her time between Sacramento and Lake Tahoe.