Jennifer Boyden

Jennifer Boyden’s debut novel, The Chief of Rally Tree (Skyhorse Publishing) was awarded the Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature for its investigation of tree consciousness, hidden lives, and lives yet to be discovered so they can be lived. Jennifer is also author of two books of poetry, The Declarable Future (awarded The Four Lakes Prize in Poetry) and The Mouths of Grazing Things (winner of The Brittingham Prize in Poetry), both with University of Wisconsin Press. As a PEN Northwest Wilderness Writing Resident, she lived and wrote for a year of unparalleled solitude in a remote region of the Rogue River in southern Oregon. Jennifer serves on the faculties of Spring Street International School and Eastern Oregon University's low-residency MFA program. She lives on an island in Washington state with her family and spends afternoons with their donkeys reading installments of The Odyssey.