Jen Conlon (they/them)
Visiting Assistant Professor
conlonj@wfu.edu
Jen Conlon teaches first-year writing and poetry, and joined the Wake Forest Writing Program in 2024. They are the author of Taking to Water, chosen by Carl Phillips for the 2022 Autumn House Poetry Prize. Jennifer is from North Carolina and earned their MFA in poetry from Arizona State University. They were awarded the 2015 Aleida Rodriguez Memorial Award in Creative Writing and the 2017 Katharine C. Turner Prize from the Academy of American Poets. More recently, Jennifer won the 2021 Boulevard Poetry Contest for Emerging Poets, and was shortlisted for the 2024 Lambda Literary Prize in Transgender Poetry. Their poems have been published by Bayou Magazine, Juked, Bennington Review, DIALOGIST, Threadcount, and elsewhere.