Jennifer Clarvoe is the author of two books of poetry: Invisible Tender (Fordham, 2000), and Counter-Amores (University of Chicago, 2011). 

Born in Washington, DC, and educated at Princeton and the University of California at Berkeley, she taught literature and creative writing at Kenyon College for almost thirty years. She lives in Somerville, MA.

Her awards and fellowships include the Kate Tufts Prize, and the Poets Out Loud Prize for Invisible Tender, a grant from the Ohio Arts Council, a fellowship from the Sewanee Writers Conference, a residency at the James Merrill House, and the Rome Prize in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Her poems have been collected in anthologies including Conversation Pieces:  Poems that Talk to Other Poems (Everyman’s Library Pocket Poet Series, 2007), WOMEN ROWING * MUJERES A LOS REMOS: A BILINGUAL (English/Spanish) collection of poems (2012), and Still Life with Poem: Contemporary Natures Mortes in Verse (Literary House Press, 2016) for which she also provided the cover photograph.