Jennifer Richter's teaching and research interests include narrative medicine, hybrid forms, and Greek mythology. Richter's new third collection, Dear Future, has won the Tenth Gate Prize for mid-career poets from Word Works Books and will be published in Spring 2024. Her first collection Threshold has been a national bestseller and was chosen by former U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey as a winner in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry; Richter’s second collection, No Acute Distress, was a Crab Orchard Editor’s Selection, and both were named Oregon Book Award Finalists. She was awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship and Jones Lectureship from Stanford University, where she taught in the Creative Writing Program for four years. Recent work has been featured in ZYZZYVA, The Los Angeles Review, The Missouri Review, The Massachusetts Review, and many other literary journals. 

Publications:

Dear Future (forthcoming 2024)

No Acute Distress (2016)

Threshold (2010)