About Jennifer reeser

Author of An Alabaster Flask (Word Press First Book Prize which X.J. Kennedy wrote, “ought to have been a candidate for a Pulitzer”), Sonnets from the Dark Lady, (finalist for the Donald Justice Prize), and Indigenous, awarded Best Poetry Book of 2019 by Englewood Review of Books. Her fourth title, The Lalaurie Horror, was cited a resource by renowned French criminologist, Stéphane Bourgoin, foremost authority on serial killers. It debuted as an Amazon Top 10 Bestseller, remaining on the list for three years. Of European and Native American Indian ancestry, she studied English in Tulsa, Oklahoma and at McNeese State University, Louisiana. She received her first award in high school from Pulitzer Prize winner, Robert Olen Butler.

In addition to writing and translating literature,

she earns her living as a professional speech-to-text freelance agent with a Forbes Top 50 company for translators and transcriptionists, which combines human with artificial intelligence. She has done work for Fortune 500 companies Microsoft, Nike, Nationwide, and Crowe; for Harvard, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, American Indian College Fund, U.S. Air Force, Indigenous Montessori Institute, United South and Eastern Tribes, NewsGuild of New York, U.S. Olympic Committee, and New York Public Radio; work for journalists with media including The New York Times, NBC News, VOGUE, Vanity Fair, CNN, The Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Forbes, Billboard, The Washington Post, The Daily Beast, Newsweek, and People, on projects with rock legend Paul Simon, former Vice President Dan Quayle, tennis superstar John McEnroe, Broadway producer David Stone, Academy Award-winning producer J. Miles Dale, Navajo Nation, Seminole Tribe of Florida, Olympic gold medalists David Wise & Jamie Anderson, restaurateur Guy Fieri, cast & crew of Yellowstone's series 1883, Merrill's Marauders, documentarian Alex Gibney & Huldah Buntain, missionary friend of Mother Teresa.

Her essays, reviews, verse and translations

of Russian, French, Cherokee, and various Amerindian languages, appear in publications including POETRY, The Hudson Review, RATTLE, The Lyric, MEASURE, Able Muse, DMQ Review, Unsplendid, New Formalist and others. Her work is included in anthologies such as Measure for Measure, published in the Everyman’s Library series by Random House/ Penguin Books, London, England; in Longman’s college textbook An Introduction to Poetry, in The Hudson Review’s Poets Translate Poets, as well as in The Able Muse Anthology.

Jennifer is a cousin of American poet Robert Frost and American writer, Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain. She descends from the Mal'Ta Child people, ancestors of the first Americans. She is a descendant of Founding Father Richard Henry Lee, and also directly descended from Chief Wahunsenaca Powhatan, the father of Pocahontas. Her ancestor Captain Thomas Shankland was author James Fenimore Cooper's inspiration for Nathaniel "Natty" Bumppo of "The Last of the Mohicans." She is an active member of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, with twelve patriot ancestors who fought for independence. Her family is part of the Cherokee Nation.

She has been a guest speaker at Tulane University in New Orleans and guest lecturer at Loyola University, by invitation of the human rights organization, Rehumanize International, on the topic of confronting abuses against indigenous peoples through literature. She has held seminars for McNeese State University’s Master of Fine Arts creative writing degree program under Dr. John Wood. She has participated in panels for the state and the nation, at the invitations of Louisiana’s poet laureates. She has been featured at the POETRY Foundation, Rattle, Goodreads, E-Verse Radio & Verse Daily, in The Writer & PRUFROCK. Her verse has been cited at The Carl Jung Page. In a poll of readers, Commercial Poetry has ranked her the tenth greatest poet of the 21st Century. She is a three-time winner of the RATTLE Poets Respond Contest for poetry which addresses topical events, and a repeat winner in LIGHT Magazine's weekly contest for spontaneous verse on a current news item.

Her translations of Anna Akhmatova are approved by Akhmatova’s heir, authorized by FTM Agency, Moscow. Her translations have twice been finalists for the Willis Barnstone Prize. Her reviews and essays have been published in Expansive Poetry & Music Online, Light Quarterly, Mezzo Cammin, and Able Muse. Her poetry has been set to music by composer Lori Laitman, in tribute to writer Edna St. Vincent Millay. Her verse has been translated into Hindi, Czech, Urdu, and Persian. Her work has received seven nominations for the Pushcart Prize and nominations for Best of the Net anthologies, The Lyric Memorial Prize, New England Prize, and Innovative Form Award from The World Order of Narrative and Formalist Poets, for her invention of the cretic hymn.