jehanne dubrow.
BIO
Jehanne Dubrow is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Stateside (Northwestern University Press, 2010). Red Army Red, her fourth collection of poetry will be published by Northwestern University Press in 2012. Previous books include The Hardship Post (2009), which won the Three Candles Press Open Book Award, and From the Fever-World, winner of the Washington Writers' Publishing House Poetry Competition (2009). Finishing Line Press published her chapbook, The Promised Bride, in 2007.
Her poetry, creative nonfiction, and book reviews have appeared in journals such as The New Republic, Poetry, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, The New England Review, Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, Blackbird, Copper Nickel, Prairie Schooner, as well as Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. Her work has been featured on NPR's "Fresh Air," on American Life in Poetry, on the PBS News Hours "Art Beat" blog, and on the Academy of American Poets website.
She has been a recipient of an Individual Artist's Award from the Maryland State Arts Council, a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship and Howard Nemerov Poetry Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and a Sosland Foundation Fellowship from the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
The daughter of American diplomats, Jehanne Dubrow was born in Italy and grew up in Yugoslavia, Zaire, Poland, Belgium, Austria, and the United States. She is married to an officer in the U.S. Navy and currently lives on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, where she is the Interim Director of the Rose O'Neill Literary House and an assistant professor in creative writing and literature at Washington College. She is the editor of The Delmarva Review. In her spare time, she teaches classes at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, MD.
