Jennifer Metsker

Lecturer IV & Writing Coordinator

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Curriculum Vitae

MFA in Poetry, University of Michigan
Post-Baccalaureate Degree in Painting and Drawing, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
BA in Fine Arts, University of Oregon

Biography

Jennifer Metsker's poetry has been published in many journals including The Southern Review, The Michigan Quarterly Review, Sycamore Review, The Cincinnati Review, Cimarron Review, Dunes Review, Gulf Coast, alice blue review, The Seattle Review, Whiskey Island Review, and many other journals. She also has poetry forthcoming in in Rhino, Cream City Review, Nightblock, and Banango Street. She has had a poem featured on the Verse Daily and has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize. Her essay “How I Became an Angel,” will be coming out in May 2016 in the anthology Show Me All Your Scars by In Fact Books. She also writes art reviews and essays on visual art for various publications, including Carbon Culture and Art Hopper. She has won many awards for her writing including an Academy of American Poets Prize and a Marjorie Rappaport Prize for New and Unusual Verse as well as a Avery Hopwood Awards in both poetry and non-fiction.

The following are links to her writing available online:

• Excerpts from "Release"
• alice blue review: "Sand and Flowers"
• The Seattle Review: "The Furies Leave Los Angeles"
• Verse Daily: "Poltergeist"
• Star 82: "Installation I: A Boat Named January"
• Carbon Culture: The Intersection of Technology, Literature and Art: "Sailors Take Warning: Reflections on Dina Kelberman's Cloud Formations" (part 1, part 2)
• UMMA Montage Magazine: "One Door Is Not Enough"
• Art Reviews on Art Hopper

In the News

• Jennifer Metsker Named Summer Faculty Fellows at Institute for the Humanities
• Jennifer Metsker: Featured Poet in “After the Pause” Spring Issue
• Bookmarks Exhibition Featured in Pulp
• Jennifer Metsker Featured on Poetry Daily
• Jennifer Metsker: Falling in Love with a Glass House
• BBC Radio 4 Airs New work by Stephanie Rowden & Jennifer Metsker
• Stephanie Rowden and Jennifer Metsker: ‘Too Many Miles’ on BBC Radio
• Stephanie Rowden and Jennifer Metsker Featured on Re:Sound / WBEZ
• Stephanie Rowden & Jennifer Metsker: ShortDocs Finalists
• Jennifer Metsker’s Poetry Appears in Banango Street
• Wake Coulter & Sonia Tagari: Sweetland Writing Awards
• Jennifer Metsker Reviews Dina Kelberman’s Cloud Formations at Cave Gallery