Jennifer Hanks

Poet

New Orleans, LA
Louisiana US

Author's Bio

Jennifer Hanks is the author of Prophet Fever (Hyacinth Girl Press). They were a finalist for Heavy Feather Review's Double Take Poetry Prize, judged by Dorothea Lasky, and are a 2016 Lambda Literary Emerging Writers Fellow. They have two additional chapbooks, gar child (Tree Light Books) and Ghost Skin (Porkbelly Press), forthcoming in 2016. Their recent work appears or is forthcoming in Arcadia, Gigantic Sequins, Bone Bouquet, HOUSEGUEST, and elsewhere. The chapbook series editor for Sundress Publications, they live in New Orleans and tweet @corsetofscales.

Publications & Prizes

Chapbook:
Prophet Fever (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2016)
Journals: ,
Bone Bouquet
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Word Riot

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
LGBTQ
Prefers to work with: 
LGBTQ
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Beaumont
Raised in: 
Beaumont, TX
Texas
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Last update: Jul 07, 2016