Jehanne Dubrow is the author of two poetry collections, From the Fever-World, winner of the Washington Writers' Publishing House Poetry Competition (2009), and The Hardship Post (2009), winner of the Three Candles Press Open Book Award, and a chapbook,
The Promised Bride (Finishing Line Press 2007). A third collection, Stateside, will be published by Northwestern University Press in March 2010.
Her poetry, creative nonfiction, and book reviews have appeared in journals such as Poetry, The Hudson Review, The New England Review, Barrow Street, Gulf Coast, Blackbird, Shenandoah, and on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. She has work forthcoming in
The New Republic, Ploughshares, and Prairie Schooner.
She has served as a Sosland Foundation Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies and has received scholarships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the West Chester Poetry Conference, the Nebraska Summer Writers’ Conference, and
the Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization.
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 earned a PhD in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, an MFA in poetry from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a BA from St. John's College, the “Great Books” school.
She is married to an officer in the U.S. Navy and currently lives on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, where she is an assistant professor in creative writing and literature at Washington College.
