Jenny Boully

Jenny Boully was born in Thailand and grew up in Texas. She earned a BA and an MA at Hollins University, an MFA in poetry from the University of Notre Dame, and a PhD from the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is the author of a prose chapbook, Moveable Types (2007), and her full-length collections of poetry include The Body: An Essay (2002, 2007); [one love affair]* (2006), which won the Best Book-Length Poem award from Coldfront; The Book of Beginnings and Endings (2007); and not merely because of the unknown that was stalking toward them (2011). Boully’s work is known for its experimental verve—her first book was composed of footnotes but no body text—and hybrid status; her work frequently mixes elements of poetry, prose, fiction, and essay and has been anthologized in The Next American Essay (2003), Great American Prose Poems (2008), and Language for a New Century (2008). Boully teaches at Columbia College-Chicago and lives in Chicago with her family.