Discipline: Literature – poetry

Jane Springer

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Clinton, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2013

Jane Springer is the author of three prize-winning poetry collections: Dear Blackbird, Murder Ballad, and Moth, the last of which she worked on at MacDowell. Her work’s been featured in The Best American Poetry and Pushcart anthologies, and she’s received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the MacDowell Artist’s Colony, and the Whiting Foundation. She currently teaches literature and creative writing at Hamilton College, in central New York, where she’s working on a hybrid collection of essay/poems on the evolution of fire.