Jenn Marie Nunes

Jenn Marie Nunes is the author of two books of poetry, AND/OR (2015), winner of the Switchback Books Queer Voices Award, and Those People (2020), winner of the 2016 National Poetry Review Press Prize (now Dog’s Heart Press). She holds an MFA from Louisiana State University and is pursuing a PhD at The Ohio State University in Chinese literature with an emphasis on modern poetry and translation and a minor in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Currently, she is in Taipei on a Fulbright-Hays working with migrant worker poets to better understand and translate their writing. You can read about her queer-feminist approach to translating poet Yu Xiuhua here.