Jen Sage-Robison
Poet Writer Teacher
FROM COLLEAGUES
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"I hope you will not miss the opportunity to know Jenipher! She has much to offer the world with her talent, her passion and her kind heart."
- Amy Challenger, author, teacher, Huffington Post
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"I greatly appreciate what she has done for me as a writer; I've regained my confidence and will to write."
- Kathy Satterfield, writer, Time Magazine
BIO
As a feminist, a disabled person, and a fierce queer ally, Jen is most interested in stories from the margins.
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A Pushcart Prize nominee, Jen ​has a background in progressive political activism and is an affiliate of Amherst Writers & Artists. She believes that everyone who writes is a writer, and that the art of writing belongs to all people regardless of education, disability or economic class.
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Jen has had the privilege of facilitating workshops in prison, for women living in poverty, and for moms of disabled kids. She believes that carefully listening to people telling their own stories can change the world.
Jen earned her MFA at Fairfield University, studied writing and literature at Sarah Lawrence College, UMASS-Boston, Poets House, with Grace Paley, Barbara Henning, and R.A.Villanueva. She has earned residencies in places like the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. Jen's poems and short fiction have been published in anthologies like the New York Writers Coalition and in literary magazines such as Exposition Review.
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She received her first lessons in storytelling from her mother and aunts at her grandmother's kitchen table.
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