Jennifer Conlon

Visiting Assistant Professor, Writing

Contact

  • Office: Tribble C5C
  • Phone: (336) 758-4027
  • Email: conlonj@wfu.edu
  • Pronouns: they/them

Degrees

  • MFA, Arizona State University
  • BA, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Area(s) of Interest

  • Queer and Trans Poetry and Poetics
  • Ecopoetics
  • Queer and Trans Rhetorics
  • U.S. militarism and the Global War on Terror
  • Southern fabulism and magical realism

Courses taught at WFU

  • WRI 109: Writing for Inquiry
  • WRI 111: Queering the Narrative

Selected Publications

Book

  • Taking to Water. Autumn House Press, 2023.

Poetry

  • “In the Wild.” featured by the Academy of American Poets for the Lambda Literary Awards, June 2024.
  • Three poems. Boulevard Magazine. Winner of Emerging Poets Contest, Spring 2022.
  • Three Poems. Eureka Literary Magazine, Fall 2020.
  • “Trigger a Memory, Or Out of the Blue.” Hayden’s Ferry Review, Fall 2020.
  • “House Fire” and “Mom’s Boyfriends.” Juked, Spring 2019.
  • “You’re Not Leaving the House Like That.” Bayou Magazine, Winter 2018.
  • “On Receiving War Stories from My Brother.” Consequence Magazine, Spring 2018.
  • “Witch Hunt” and “Menagerie of Sexual Assault.” Heavy Feather Review, August 2017.
  • Four Poems. Another Chicago Magazine, October 2017.
  • “The Correctional Center’s First Pool Baptism.” Academy of American Poets, winner of Katherine C. Turner Prize, Fall 2017.

Interviews and Features

Awards

  • Finalist, Lambda Literary Awards, Transgender Poetry, 2024.
  • Autumn House Poetry Prize, selected by Carl Phillips, 2022.
  • Boulevard Contest for Emerging Poets, 2021.
  • Katherine C. Turner Prize from the Academy of American Poets, 2017.
  • Aleida Rodriguez Memorial Award in Creative Writing, 2015.