Jeanne Bryner

Jeanne Bryner is a retired board-certified emergency room nurse and writer who was born in Appalachia.

She has several books in print, and her work has been adapted for the stage in national venues and the 2004 Fringe Festival of Edinburgh, Scotland. She has received writing fellowships from Bucknell University, the Ohio Arts Council and Vermont Studio Center. Her book of poetry titled No Matter How Many Windows won the Tillie Olsen Award for Creative Writing from the Working Class Studies Association. Her book, SMOKE, won second place in the 2012 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Awards. Her book BOTH SHOES OFF was nominated for the Paterson Prize in Poetry and a Pushcart prize. With Cortney Davis she co-edited the anthology LEARNING TO HEAL: REFLECTIONS ON NURSING SCHOOL IN PROSE AND POETRY, KSU Press, 2018. This book's international collection of voices won the 2019 AJN Book of the Year Award in creative writing and the Tillie Olsen award from the WCSA. Her new book, IN VELVET: NEW & SELECTED POEMS, gleaned from forty

years of writing will be published September, 2024 by Bottom Dog Press, Huron, Ohio. The mother of two children, she lives

near an Ohio dairy farm with her husband, David.