- About Jeannine
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Jeannine
Hall Gailey was born at Yale New Haven Hospital in Connecticut, and
grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee. 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 first book of poetry, Becoming the
Villainess, was published by Steel Toe Books in 2006. Poems
from the book were featured on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac and
on Verse Daily; two were included in 2007’s The Year’s
Best Fantasy and Horror. She recently taught with the
Young Artist Project at Centrum. 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. - Her inspirations often come from mythological sources, such as Ovid's Metamorphoses or The Tales of Genji, folk and fairy tale collections, and of course, comic books.
- For more details, see her "curriculum vita."
- Poetry News
- My book,
Becoming the Villainess,
was released in 2006 by
Steel Toe Books.
Sign up for the latest news about Becoming the Villainess. - "The Robot Scientist's Daughter Journeys West" appears in the 2009 issue 6 of The Los Angeles Review, "Cesium Burns Blue" appears in the Winter 2009/2010 of The Cincinnati Review, and "Sleeping Beauty Loves the Needle" appears in the latest issue of Prick of the Spindle.
- An interview with Pattiann Rogers at the Poets & Writers web site.
- An interview with Matthea Harvey at the Poetry Foundation web site.
- Two poems from Becoming the Villainess appear in the 2007 The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror.
- 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.
