Poetry at Noon, Jenny Desai

Poetry at Noon

Jenny Desai studied Classics and Medieval Latin at Harvard College before earning a Master in Fine Arts at the University of Michigan, where she was the recipient of the Hopwood Award in Poetry. After completing a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University, she worked in a variety of capacities in publishing, including a brief tenure as a literary agent and translation-rights broker, and a stint as the managing editor of the now-defunct San Jose Magazine. She has published articles on a variety of topics, including the impact of cochlear implants on deaf culture, and the intersection of biology and violence. Her most recent work includes a contribution to the textbook The Active Reader: Strategies for Academic Reading and Writing (Oxford University Press, 2008), and editorship of Landscape of Industry: An Industrial History of the Blackstone River Valley (University Press of New England, 2009). Her poetry has been published in numerous journals, including The Birmingham Review, The Beloit Poetry Journal, The MacGuffin, The Harvard Quarterly, Ascent, and Plainsongs. She is currently—and perennially—at work on a collection of poems.

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