Jennifer Conlon

Visiting Assistant Professor · Queer and Trans Poetry and Poetics

United States

About

Jennifer Conlon is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing at Wake Forest University. They hold an MFA from Arizona State University and a BA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, with pronouns they/them.

Their research examines Queer and Trans Poetry, Ecopoetics, militarism, and Southern magical realism through award-winning collections like Taking to Water (Autumn House, 2023).

Awards include:

Lambda Literary Finalist (2024)
Autumn House Poetry Prize (2022)
Boulevard Emerging Poets Prize (2021)
Katherine C. Turner Prize (2017)

Publications explore identity transformation through natural metaphors and queer Southern narratives.

Research fields

Queer and Trans Poetry and Poetics Ecopoetics Queer and Trans Rhetorics U.S. militarism and the Global War on Terror Southern fabulism and magical realism

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