Jenny Molberg

Professor and Editor-in-Chief of Ploughshares
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Jenny Molberg
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Jenny Molberg is the author of three poetry collections: Marvels of the Invisible (Tupelo Press, 2017), winner of the Berkshire Prize; Refusal (LSU Press, 2020); and The Court of No Record (LSU Press, 2023), a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She edited the Unsung Masters volume Adelaide Crapsey: The Life and Work of an American Master, and her poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, AGNI, The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review, Oprah Quarterly, and elsewhere. Molberg has received fellowships and residencies from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, Vermont Studio Center, and others. She is Professor of Writing, Literature, and Publishing and Editor-in-Chief of Ploughshares at Emerson College. 

About

Education

B.A., Louisiana State University
M.F.A., American University
Ph.D., University of North Texas

Areas of Expertise

  • Poetry