Jenny Molberg

Poet

Warrensburg, MO
Missouri US
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Author's Bio

Jenny Molberg is the author of Marvels of the Invisible (winner of the 2014 Berkshire Prize, Tupelo Press, 2017) and Refusal (LSU Press 2020), as well as the co-editor for Adelaide Crapsey: The Life and Work of an American Master. She is the recipient of a 2019-2020 Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as scholarships and fellowships from the Sewanee Writers Conference, Vermont Studio Center, and the Longleaf Writers Conference. Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, Gulf Coast, West BranchTupelo Quarterly, The Missouri Review, and other publications.  She teaches creative writing at the University of Central Missouri, where she directs Pleiades Press and co-edits Pleiades magazine. Find her online at jennymolberg.com.

Publications & Prizes

Book:
Marvels of the Invisible (Tupelo Press, 2014)
Prizes won: 

2019-2020 Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Berkshire Prize, Tupelo Press, 2014 Third Coast Poetry Prize, 2013

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now: 
Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky, My Second Work by Bridget Lowe, Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
White
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Houston
Raised in: 
Dallas, TX
Texas
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Last update: Apr 16, 2020