Jane Satterfield is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts poetry fellowship, as well as awards from Bellingham Review, Ledbury Poetry Festival, the U.K. literary magazine Mslexia, and more. Her five books include Her Familiars, Shepherdess with an Automatic, Elixir Press Book Award winner Assignation at Vanishing Point,and Apocalypse Mix, winner of the 2016 Autumn House Poetry Prize. Her nonfiction book, Daughters of Empire: A Memoir of a Year in Britain and Beyond, features work that received the Florida Review Editors鈥� Prize, the Faulkner Society/Pirate鈥檚 Alley Essay Award, and the John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize.
Satterfield鈥檚 poetry and prose have appeared in American Poetry Review, Antioch Review, Crazyhorse, DIAGRAM, Ecotone, Hotel Amerika, North American Review, Orion, Pleiades, and many more, as well as on Verse Daily and Poetry Daily. For ten years she was the literary editor for the Ontario-based multidisciplinary biannual Journal of the Motherhood Initiative (JMI) and, with Laurie Kruk, co-edited the multi-genre anthology Borderlands and Crossroads: Writing the Motherland (Demeter, 2016). She has served on the faculty of the West Chester University Poetry Conference, as Salisbury, Maryland's Poet-in-Residence, and as director of Loyola's Humanities Symposium.
Education
The University of Iowa, M.F.A.
Courses Taught
WR100 Effective Writing
WR200 Introduction to Creative Nonfiction*
WR340 Writing Poetry
WR352 Biography and Autobiography
WR358 Literary Reviewing
WR385 Special Topics in Creative Writing: Apocalypse Now鈥擶riting for the End Times
WR385 Special Topics in Creative Writing: The Poetics of Social Justice *
WR385 Special Topics in Creative Writing: Memoirs of Crisis *
WR400 Senior Seminar
*Peace and Justice Studies minor electives
Publications
Selected poetry
鈥淐ostumery鈥�; 鈥淪elf-Portrait as Thunder and Lightning鈥�; 鈥淩ewriting Emily鈥�; 鈥淗eathcliff鈥檚 颁耻谤蝉别.鈥�
Missouri Review 44.1 (2021). 91-99.
鈥淭he Sharp-Shinned Hawk.鈥� Orion 39.1 (2020). 47.
鈥淒eer in Winter.鈥� Ecotone 28 (2020). 154.
鈥淥n a Volume of Ted Hughes鈥� New and Selected Poems Signed by a Mr. Blake.鈥�
Literary Matters. 11.4. Autumn 2019.
鈥淲hich Bront毛 Sister Are You?鈥�; 鈥淣ight.鈥� Literary Matters 11.3. Spring/Summer 2019.
Selected essays
鈥沦肠颈谤辞肠肠辞.鈥� The Pinch 41.1 (2021).
鈥淪apphire Ring.鈥� The Pinch (2021).
鈥凌别蹿耻驳别.鈥� Ascent (2019).
鈥淭est Strip.鈥� Tupelo Quarterly 19 (2019).