Jennifer Reeser

Jennifer Reeser is the author of seven collections of poetry. Her first, An Alabaster Flask, was winner of the Word Press First Book Prize. X. J. Kennedy wrote that it "ought to have been a candidate for a Pulitzer." Her third, Sonnets from the Dark Lady, was a finalist for the Donald Justice Prize. Her fourth, The Lalaurie Horror, debuted as an Amazon bestseller in the category of Epic Poetry. Reeser's poems, reviews, and translations of Russian, French, along with Cherokee and various Native American Indian languages, have appeared in POETRY, Rattle, the Hudson Review, Recours au Poème, LIGHT Quarterly, the Formalist, the Dark Horse, SALT, Able Muse, and elsewhere. A biracial writer of European American and Native American Indian ancestry, Reeser studied English at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and also in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She divides her time between her lands on the Gulf Coast and on the Cherokee Nation Reservation near Tahlequah, Indian Country, Oklahoma.