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Jennifer Soong is an Assistant Professor in Creative Writing and Poetry at the University of Denver’s College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences, Department of English & Literary Arts. She holds a Ph.D. in English from Princeton University (2021) and a B.A. in English with a secondary in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard College (2014). Prior to DU, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oxford.
Her research and creative work bridges poetry, poetics, and critical theory. She explores modern and contemporary Anglophone literature, aesthetics, small press publishing, and avant-garde movements. Her monograph Slips of the Mind: Poetry as Forgetting (University of Chicago Press, 2025) examines the relationship between poetry and oblivion. She has published essays in Critical Inquiry, Modernism/modernity, Textual Practice, and others, addressing topics like lyric poetry’s use of pronouns, minor poets, and figures such as Tan Lin and John Wieners.
Her poetry collections include My Earliest Person (2025), Comeback Death (2024), and Suede Mantis / Soft Rage (2022). These works interrogate language, gender, and the interplay between form and emotion, often blending neo-romantic and post-pastoral sensibilities. Her writing experiments with structure to challenge traditional lyric conventions.
Soong’s interdisciplinary approach merges creative practice with scholarly rigor, emphasizing presence and immediacy in both her poetry and critical essays. Her work reflects a commitment to redefining literary forms and engaging with contemporary philosophical and cultural debates.
