Jennifer Steinorth

Jennifer Sperry Steinorth’s books include Boys Behind Glass (TRP, 2026), A Wake with Nine Shades (TRP, 2019) and Her Read, A Graphic Poem (TRP, 2021), recipient of a Foreword Review prize in poetry and the Fred Whitehead Award from the Texas Institute of Letters. She has received grants from Yale, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Vermont Studio Center, and elsewhere. An interdisciplinary artist and licensed builder, she lectures in the Department of English where she is particularly concerned with documentary poetics, hybrid forms, ecopoetics, gender studies, disability studies, pathologies of erasure and the wondrous, restorative power of creative process.  A 2025 recipient of the Ben Prize for teaching, her interdisciplinary approach to teaching and creative practices is also informed by years as a classical dancer and a decade in architectural design and construction. A recent Beinecke Fellow at Yale, she is at work on a biography of American poet, C.D. Wright.