Jennifer Richter's teaching and research interests include narrative medicine, seismology, hybrid forms, and Greek mythology. Richter's new third collection, Dear Future, won the Tenth Gate Prize for midcareer poets and was published in May 2024. Her first collection, Threshold, was 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; 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. Her work has been featured in ZYZZYVA, The Missouri Review, The Massachusetts Review, and many other literary journals. 

Publications:

Dear Future (2024)

No Acute Distress (2016)

Threshold (2010)