Jennifer Reeser has published two previous collections of poetry (including An Alabaster Flask, winner of the Word Press First Book Prize, 2003, which X. J. Kennedy, poet and former editor of The Paris Review, wrote "...ought to have been a candidate for a Pulitzer.") Her honors include The New England Prize, The Lyric Memorial Prize, and awards from Dr. Alfred Dorn of The World Order of Narrative and Formalist Poets. Her writing has been featured on the World Wide Web editions of POETRY , Verse Daily, Goodreads and E-verse Radio, and has appeared in numerous anthologies, including Longman's college text, An Introduction to Poetry, edited by Dana Gioia and X. J. Kennedy. She has contributed… poems, scholarly articles and translations of French and Russian literature to publications including POETRY, The Hudson Review, Light Quarterly, The Formalist, Mezzo Cammin, the Rockford Institute's Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, First Things, and The National Review. Her verse and vocals have been set to music by classical/art song composer Lori Laitman, and the American recording artist, Briareus. She works as a consultant on the faculty of the West Chester Poetry Conference, the nation's largest annual conference on poetry. She is the former assistant editor to Iambs & Trochees, and lives amid the bayous of southern Louisiana with her husband and children.