Jennifer Sperry Steinorth

Jennifer Sperry Steinorth’s books include Boys Behind Glass (forthcoming 2025), A Wake with Nine Shades, finalist for the Eric Hoffer Prize, and Her Read, A Graphic Poem, recipient of the Foreword Reviews Bronze Prize for Poetry and the Fred Whitehead Award from the Texas Institute of Letters. A poet, educator, interdisciplinary artist and licensed builder, she has received grants and fellowships from the University of Michigan, Yale, Vermont Studio Center, the Sewanee Writers Conference, Community of Writers and the MFA for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Their poems have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, The Cincinnati Review, The Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Kenyon Review, The Massachusetts Review, Michigan Quarterly, Missouri Review, New Ohio Review, Pleiades, Plume, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. She is a lecturer in the English Department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and at work on a biography of American poet, C.D. Wright.

Steinorth began artistic life as a dancer, practicing and performing with the Houston Ballet, the School of the Pennsylvania Ballet, and Interlochen Arts Academy. For 15 years she was president and lead designer for a design-build firm specializing in environmentally-responsible homes; their architectural work has been featured in Fine Homebuilding and other national journals. Their visual art has appeared at the Dennos Museum, Woman Made Gallery in Chicago and elsewhere. She divides her time between Ann Arbor, Traverse City, Michigan and where else the winds carry her. She moonlights as an architectural designer and building consultant when the light falls just so.