Jennifer Perrine

Born in Morristown, New Jersey, Jennifer (JP) Perrine earned a BA in religion, culture, and the creative arts from Susquehanna University, an MA in English from Bucknell University, and a PhD in English from Florida State University. Perrine is the author of five books of poetry: Beautiful Outlaw, winner of the 2023 QTBIPOC Prize from Kelsey Street Press; Again (Airlie Press, 2020); No Confession, No Mass (University of Nebraska Press, 2015), winner of the 2014 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, the 2015 Bisexual Book Award for Poetry, and the 2016 Publishing Triangle Audre Lorde Award; In the Human Zoo (University of Utah Press, 2011), winner of the 2010 Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry; and The Body Is No Machine (New Issues, 2007), winner of the 2008 Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award in Poetry. 

A two-time recipient of Arts and Culture Diversity and Inclusion Awards from the Asian American Journalists Association, Perrine’s honors also include fellowships from Vermont Studio Center, Caldera, and the Independent Publishing Resource Center.

Perrine’s work appears in A Mouth Holds Many Things: A De-Canon Hybrid Literary Collection (Fonograf Editions, 2024), Essential Queer Voices of U.S. Poetry (Green Linden Press, 2024), and Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, and Poetry (Mountaineers Books, 2023). Perrine cohosts the Incite: Queer Writers Read series and works as the equity and racial justice program manager with the Metro Parks and Nature Department in Portland, Oregon.