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 Boys Behind Glass (2026), A Wake with Nine Shades, a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Prize, & Her Read, A Graphic Poem, recipient of the Foreword Reviews Bronze Prize for Poetry & the Fred Whitehead Award from the Texas Institute of Letters. A poet, educator, interdisciplinary artist & licensed builder, she has received grants from Yale, Vermont Studio Center, the Sewanee Writers Conference, Community of Writers & the Institute for Research on Women & Gender at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor where she lecturers in the English Department. 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.