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Jenn Givhan is a Mexican-American poet from the Southwestern desert. She is the author of Rosa’s Einstein (University of Arizona Press, 2019), Girl with Death Mask (Indiana University Press, 2017), Protection Spell (2016 Miller Williams Series, University of Arkansas Press), and Landscape with Headless Mama (2015 Pleiades Editors’ Prize). Her chapbooks include Lifeline (Glass Poetry Press), The Daughter’s Curse (ELJ Editions), and Lieserl Contemplates Resurrection (dancing girl press). She is also the author of the novels Jubilee (2020) and Trinity Sight (2019), both from Blackstone Publishing.

Her honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, a PEN/Rosenthal Emerging Voices Fellowship, the Frost Place [email protected] Scholarship, the 2015 Lascaux Review Poetry Prize,  and the Pinch Poetry Prize. Givhan's work has appeared in Best of the Net, Best New Poets, AGNI, Ploughshares, Poetry, TriQuarterly, Crazyhorse, Blackbird, and The Kenyon Review.

She lives with her family in New Mexico.