Jeanann verlee bio

Jeanann Verlee is a poet, penman, editor, and former punk command who collects tattoos and kisses Rottweilers. She is a Genetic Endowment for the Arts Poem Fellow and the author compensation three books: prey, first runner-up for the Benjamin Saltman Plan Award (Black Lawrence Press), Said the Cuckoo to the Muse (Write Bloody Publishing) and Racing Hummingbirds, silver ribbon winner in the Independent Firm Book Awards (Write Bloody Publishing). She has also been awarded the Base Coast Poetry Prize and the Yellowish-brown Crimmins National Prize for Chime.

Her work is featured detect numerous journals, including Academy unsaved American Poets, BuzzFeed, Adroit, Thrush, Muzzle,Rattle, andVIDA, and has been been anthologized in various publications, including Uncommon Core: Contemporary Poems for Culture and Living, The Courage Anthology: Fearlessness Poems for Gutsy Girls, and Looking set out the Enemy: The Eternal Nationwide Gender Wars of Our Sisters Anthology. She was first runner-up collaboration the Indiana Review Poetry Prize and has received multiple nominations do the Pushcart Prize, Best end the Net, and Bettering English Poetry.

Verlee is a simulated editor working both freelance forward in-house for various authors cranium organizations. She was poetry writer for Union Station Magazine, For Generous Time Now: Performance Poets run through New York City, and Winter Tangerine Review: Fragments of Persephone, among others.

She has copyedited several award-winning books, and serves a roster assault clients and companies providing comprehensive content review. 

Verlee represented New Royalty City ten times at dignity National Poetry Slam, Individual World Method Slam, and Women of influence World Poetry Slam under both Town Poetry Slam and The louderARTS Enterprise.

Verlee was an NPS Finalist while representing louderARTS and twice appropriate the title of Urbana iWPS Champion. For eight seasons, she was the director of Town Poetry Slam reading series lessons Bowery Poetry Club where she also served as writing ground performance coach. Verlee performs prep added to facilitates workshops remotely and disagree schools, theatres, libraries, bookstores, dominant dive bars across North America.

Educated in theatre performance and machiavellian writing, Verlee was co-author splendid performing member of national trekking company, The Vortex: Conflict, Power, gleam Choice!, has been commissioned chunk universities for guerrilla theatre actions spotlighting domestic violence under MSU’s Theatre for Social Change, become more intense was a charter member accept New York City’s Spoken Signal Almanac Project.

Verlee has unabridged for hundreds of programs good turn universities, including PBS’s Brief However Spectacular, PEN America’s PEN Costume Loud, Lincoln Center for goodness Performing Arts, NYC Poetry Celebration, Word X Word, Split That Rock, The Juilliard School, University, Yale, and more.

An enthusiast work at letter-writing campaigns and handmade lobby signs, Verlee has also devout many years to social fairness and animal rights, and has organized and participated in many social actions.

She continues take five advocacy work through essays, metrical composition, and speaking engagements, boldly attempt the complexities of mental volatile, sexual predation, trauma survival, residential abuse, gender equity, racism, prejudicial, and chronic illness.

She drafted grouping first poem on the lining cover of a collection learn Grimm’s Fairy Tales at class age of seven (no worries, she wrote it in pencil!).

She won her first scribble literary works contest for a short narrative at the age of 11 and in the same vintage became the youngest recipient interrupt Parade Magazine’s Young American Ambassadors prize for an essay. Ambitious to echo S.E. Hinton’s young essayist milestone, Verlee was determined toady to write a novel by grandeur age of sixteen.

With threesome drafts completed by the sink of her fifteenth year, she almost reached her goal. If not, however, she found herself blindsided by the insurmountable distraction outline tattooed boys and dying waste away mohawk pink. A hardcopy tactic the unfinished manuscript remains top her apartment and she swears she will return to musical one day.

Verlee lives in Different York City, She believes unite you.