Jennifer Reeser

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About Jennifer reeser

She is author of An Alabaster Flask, (winner of the Word Press First Book Prize, which X.J. Kennedy wrote, “ought to have been a candidate for a Pulitzer”), Winterproof, Sonnets from the Dark Lady and Other Poems (a 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, has been cited as a resource by world-renowned French criminologist, Stéphane Bourgoin, foremost authority on serial killers. It debuted as an Amazon Top 10 Bestseller in Epic Poetry, remaining on the Bestsellers list for three years. Of European and Native American Indian ancestry, she studied English in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana. She received her first writing award in high school from Pulitzer Prize winner, Robert Olen Butler. She is a cousin of Robert Frost and Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain. Her family is part of the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma, her former home.

In addition to writing and translating literature,

 she earns her living as a professional speech-to-text freelancer 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, Nationwide, and Crowe LLC;  for institutions Harvard, American Indian College Fund, U.S. Air Force, Indigenous Montessori Institute, and New York Public Radio; as well as work for journalists with media including CNN, The Wall Street Journal, Billboard, and The Washington Post, on projects with former Vice President Dan Quayle, film director Frelle Petersen, the Navajo Nation, and Huldah Buntain, missionary colleague and friend of Mother Teresa.


Her essays, reviews, verse and translations

of Russian, French, Cherokee, and various Amerindian languages, appear in publications including POETRY, Rattle, The Hudson Review, THINK, Disquieting Muses, The Lyric, Able Muse, Recours Au Poeme,  The Formalist, The Dark Horse, and Salt.  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.  


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 and Verse Daily, IthacaLit, and in 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.  Her poems, “A Forensic Anthropologist Breaks Bad News to the Arapaho," and "Scientists Panicked by Vanished Star," won the RATTLE Poets Respond Contest for poetry which addresses topical events in the news.

 

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. 


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