Christina Pugh writes in Poetry Magazine, Jenny’s “verse forms sing with idiosyncrasy”.
Jenny’s work recently appeared on poets.org, and in the Paris Review and Prairie Schooner.
Jenny reads and speaks at museums, college campuses, stages, and bookstores.
Jenny blogs for the Best American Poetry site and the Poetry Society of America.
Jenny Factor is an archaeologist of object and mind; she is also a feminist, a mother, and a dog-lover. Her poem collection, Unraveling at the Name (Copper Canyon Press), won a Hayden Carruth Award and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Factor’s poems and reviews have appeared in more than a dozen anthologies, including Poetry 180 and The Best American Erotic Poems (Scribner, 2008). Her work has been supported by an Astraea Grant in poetry. Jenny Factor received her MFA in Literature from Bennington College, and her B.A. in Anthropology from Harvard College. She serves on the Core Faculty at Antioch University Los Angeles, the only MFA program with a dual focus on literature and the pursuit of social justice.
