Jennifer Dotson

Jennifer Dotson is the founder and program coordinator for www.HighlandParkPoetry.org and the author of Late Night Talk Show Fantasy & Other Poems (Kelsay Books, 2020). Her debut poetry collection, Clever Gretel, received the Journal of Modern Poetry First Book Award and was published by Chicago Poetry Press in 2013. Her poems have appeared in After Hours, East on Central, Exact Change Only, The MacGuffin, Panoplyzine, Poetry Pacific, and Willow Review.She was the Waiting4theBus’ 2013 Poetry Pentathlon Champion at Powell’s Books (Chicago). She facilitates writing workshops for the Highland Park Public Library’s Library U Program.