About Jennifer

Jennifer Markell is the author of Samsara (Turning Point, 2014) which was a Finalist for the Massachusetts Book Awards, 2015.

Her second poetry collection, Singing at High Altitude, was published by The Main Street Rag in 2021.

Samsara was also a Finalist in The Next generation Indie Book Awards, 2015. Her chapbook, Leaving the Green Elm Market, was a Finalist in the Sheltering Pines Chapbook Competition, 2005.

Jennifer’s poems have been published in journals nationally and internationally, including The Bitter Oleander, The Cimarron Review, Consequence, Diode, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, RHINO, Storm Cellar, Tinderbox, and The Women’s Review of Books.

Her poems have been anthologized in Poetry From Sojourner: A Feminist Anthology, (University of Illinois Press) The Compassion Anthology, Carapace 100 (South Africa), From the Farther Shore: Cape Cod & the Islands Through Poetry (Bass River Press), and Treelines: an anthology of 21st-century American poems (Grayson Books, 2022).

Jennifer has received awards from the Chester H. Jones Foundation, The Comstock Review, The New England Poetry Club, and the Rita Dove Prize in Poetry at Salem College. Her poems have been displayed at Boston City Hall, and she was invited to read her work at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 


         "A slow bloom of light emerges from Markell's poetry with the confidence of a lone candle in the dark..."

         –Leanna Stead, from a review in The Main Street Rag