- About Jeannine
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Jeannine Hall Gailey is the Seattle-area author of two books
of poetry,
She
Returns to the Floating World, which came out
from Kitsune Books in 2011, and
Becoming the Villainess, which was published by Steel Toe Books in
2006. She has a B.S. in Biology and an M.A. in English from the University of Cincinnati,
as well as an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Pacific University. Her poems have been featured on NPR's
The Writer's Almanac and on Verse Daily; two were
included inThe Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. In 2007 she
received a Washington State Artist Trust GAP Grant and a
Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize. She volunteers as an
editorial consultant for
Crab Creek Review,
writes book reviews, and teaches at National University's MFA Program.
- For more details, see her "curriculum vita."
- Poetry News
- My second book, She Returns to the Floating World, was released in July 2011 from Kitsune Books.
- My first book, Becoming
the Villainess, was released in 2006 by
Steel Toe Books.
Sign up for the latest news about my books, She Returns to the Floating World and Becoming the Villainess. - "The Robot Scientist's Daughter [one of us]" and two other Robot Scientist's Daughter poems appear in the Spring/Summer 2011 issue of The Journal.
- "The Foxfire Books: In Case of Emergency, Learn to Make Glass" and "Knoxville, 1979" appear in the Spring 2011 issue of Prairie Schooner.
- The Robot Scientist's Daughter [circuits]" appears in the 2010 issue 31 of 5 AM and "Sleeping Beauty Has an MRI" appears in the latest issue of 14 Hills.
- An interview with Pattiann Rogers at the Poets & Writers web site.
- Two poems from Becoming the Villainess appeared on The Writer's Almanac. "Spy Girls," was read by Garrison Keillor on the Writer's Almanac on June 16, 2006. "Female Comic Book Superheroes" was featured on The Writer's Almanac on July 7, 2006.
- Several poems from Becoming the Villainess have appeared on Verse Daily, including "When Red Becomes the Wolf" on the April 30, 2006 issue of Verse Daily and "Femme Fatale" on Verse Daily on April 5th, 2006.
Special thanks to Yumiko Kayukawa
for the use of
Zen Cracker.
