Janeen Pergrin Rastall

Poet

Marquette, MI
Michigan US
Email: 
janeenpergrin@gmail.com
Website: 
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Author's Bio

Janeen Rastall is the author of In the Yellowed House(dancing girl press 2014), Objects May Appear Closer (Celery City Chapbook,2015) and Heart Radicals with Allie Marini, Sandra Marchetti and Les Kay (ELJ Publications, 2016). Her poetry has appeared in several publications including: The Raleigh Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Heron Tree and The Fourth River. She was awarded a writing residency at Sundress Academy for the Arts in 2016.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Here, Women Writing on Michigan's Upper Peninsula (Michigan State University Press, 2015)
,
Not Somewhere Else But Here (Sundress Publications, 2014)
,
Forgetting Home: Poems About Alzheimer's (Barefoot Muse Press, 2013)
,
The Way North Collected Upper Peninsula New Works (Wayne State University Press, 2013)
Chapbooks:
Heart Radicals (ELJ Publications, 2016)
,
In the Yellowed House (Dancing Girl Press, 2014)
Journals:
Border Crossing
,
Fourth River
,
Heron Tree
,
Michigan Poet
,
North Dakota Quarterly
,
Prime Number Magazine
,
Raleigh Review
Prizes won: 

Her chapbook, Objects May Appear Closer won the 2015 Celery City Chapbook Contest. She has been nominated by Wayne State University Press(2013) and Border Crossing (2014) for a Pushcart Prize.the museum of americana nominated her for a 2014 Best of the Net Award.

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
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Last update: Feb 24, 2017