Jessica Greenbaum

Jessica Greenbaum’s third book, Spilled and Gone, was chosen by the Boston Globe as a Best Book for 2021. Her second book, The Two Yvonnes, was chosen by Paul Muldoon for Princeton U. Press, and her first book, Inventing Difficulty was published through the Gerald Cable Prize offered by Silverfish Review Press. She also a co-editor of Tree Lines: 21st century American Poems (Grayson, 2022), and the first ever poetry haggadah, Mishkan HaSeder (CCAR, 2021). A recipient of awards from the NEA and the Poetry Society of America, and a contributor to Best American Poetry, she teaches inside and outside academia, and, as a social worker, with communities who have experienced trauma. https://poemsincommunity.org/