Jennifer S. Cheng

Jennifer S. Cheng’s work includes poetry, lyric essay, and image-text forms, exploring immigrant home-building, feminine monstrosity, and bewilderment poetics. Her most recent book, MOON: LETTERS, MAPS, POEMS (2018), was selected by Bhanu Kapil for the Tarpaulin Sky Award and named a Publishers Weekly “Best Book of 2018,” and she is also the author of HOUSE A (2016), selected by Claudia Rankine for the Omnidawn Poetry Book Prize. Her poetry appears in Poetry Magazine, The Atlantic, The Nation, Tin House, Conjunctions, The Los Angeles Review of Books, numerous anthologies, and elsewhere. Her writing has received awards and fellowships from Brown University, the University of Iowa, San Francisco State University, the National Endowment for the Arts, the U.S. Fulbright program, Kundiman, Bread Loaf, MacDowell, and the Academy of American Poets. Having grown up in Texas and Hong Kong, she lives in San Francisco, where she teaches in graduate programs and community settings and is also a founding member of The Ruby, a gathering space of women and non-binary writers and artists. www.jenniferscheng.com