Jennifer Givhan

• Comment: sources need to be about her and not written by her, interviews are not suitable either. Theroadislong (talk) 17:03, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

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Jennifer Givhan is a Mexican-American poet from Southwestern United States. She is the author of three full-length collections of poetry and three chapbooks, and a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and a PEN/Rosenthal Emerging Voices fellowship. Her poetry has been published in Poetry, Best New Poets 2013, AGNI, The Kenyon Review, Rattle, Prairie Schooner, Indiana Review, and Southern Humanities Review, among others. She is Poetry Editor at Tinderbox Poetry Journal and teaches at The Poetry Barn.

Personal Life

Givhan grew up the Imperial Valley in Southern California, which gave her a "borderland identity," telling The Review Review, "As a person of mixed ethnicity, I’ve never completely fit in with any one culture. [...] The Valley was a microcosm of the divisive political climate we currently live in, so it offered training in resistance and survival." She has an MFA from Warren Wilson College and an MA in English literature from California State University–Fullerton.

Themes

Much of Givhan's poetry focuses on mother-daughter relations, as well as the experience of being a mother and a daughter herself. When in an interview what she never tires of writing about, Givhan told Indiana Review, "Mother/child relationships & that kind of sticky love that keeps us hanging on when we’ve no other reason but love."

Bibliography

• Girl with Death Mask, Indiana University Press, 2018. ISBN: 978-0-253-03279-9
• Protection Spell, University of Arkansas Press, 2017. ISBN: 978-1-68226-028-9
• Lifeline, Glass Poetry Press, 2017. ISBN: 978-0-9975805-5-6
• The Daughter's Curse, ELJ Editions, 2017.
• Landscape with Headless Mama, LSU Press, 2016 ISBN: 9780807165416
• Lieserl Contemplates Resurrection, dancing girl press.

Awards

• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 2016
• 2015 Pleiades Editors’ Prize
• 2015 Lascaux Review Poetry Prize
• PEN/Rosenthal Emerging Voices Fellowship
• The Frost Place Latin@ Scholarship
• The Pinch Poetry Prize