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, & Interlochen Arts Academy. For 15 years she was president & lead designer for a design-build construction company specializing in environmentally-responsible homes; their architectural work has been featured in Fine Homebuilding & other national journals. Their visual art has appeared at the Main Gallery at Texas State University in San Antonio, Dennos Museum, Woman Made Gallery in Chicago & elsewhere. She divides her time between Ann Arbor, Traverse City, Michigan & wherever else the winds carry her. She moonlights as an architectural designer & building consultant when the light falls just so.