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About Jeannine
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 second book, She Returns to the Floating World, will be released in late 2011 by 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 [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.
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.