self-portrait w/faux iron hardware, genuine naugahyde & spiral-bound board game, stuffed & mounted.
"Her Apologia" is a photographic journal documenting the conception of Her Read, a graphic poem...
Jennifer Sperry Steinorth’s books include A Wake with Nine Shades, a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Prize, and Her Read, A Graphic Poem, recipient of the Foreword Reviews Bronze Prize for Poetry and the Fred Whitehead Award from the Texas Institute of Letters. A poet, educator, interdisciplinary artist and licensed builder, she has received grants from Vermont Studio Center, the Sewanee Writers Conference, Community of Writers and the MFA for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Their poems appear in Alaska Quarterly, Beloit Poetry Journal, Black Warrior Review, The Colorado Review, The Cincinnati Review, Denver Quarterly, Kenyon Review, The Massachusetts Review, Michigan Quarterly, Mid-American Review, Missouri Review, New Ohio Review, Pleiades, Plume, Poetry Northwest, Rhino, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. She is a lecturer in the English Department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a 2023-2024 Beinecke Fellow at Yale where she is at work on a biography of American poet, C.D. Wright.
Steinorth began her artistic life as a dancer, practicing and performing with the Houston Ballet, the School of the Pennsylvania Ballet, and Interlochen Arts Academy. For 15 years she was president and lead designer for a design-build construction company specializing in environmentally-responsible homes; their architectural work has been featured in Fine Homebuilding and other national journals. Their visual art has appeared at the Dennos Museum, Woman Made Gallery in Chicago and elsewhere. She divides her time between Ann Arbor, Traverse City, Michigan and wherever else the winds carry her. She moonlights as an architectural designer and building consultant when the light falls just so.