Jenny Factor is a recovering archaeologist, a queer writer, a scholar, and a dog-lover. Jenny's second collection of poems, Want, the Lake, will be published by Red Hen Press in early September 2024. Her first collection, Unraveling at the Name, won the Copper Canyon Press Hayden Carruth Award and was a Lambda Literary Award Finalist in Poetry. Jenny lectures on Poetry at Caltech and is a frequent guest at the Antioch University MFA in Creative Writing program. She is at work on a book about poem games.

Other poems on the web by Jenny Factor:
"Pride Diary"
Two poems
"Death Valley Pupfish"
"Mind Loves"

Jenny Factor's Website.

Jenny Factor on Twitter.

About Want, the Lake:

"Once again, Jenny Factor makes language ring like a sheep's bell, like ripples on a lake where you encounter a lover. Like precise and accurate attention to the myriad truths and touchings of nature, human nature, childhood, motherhood, freedom, captivity. Turning and turning, Factor is a shimmering lighthouse of desire."
—Alicia Ostriker

"Jenny Factor crafts her couplets, quatrains, sonnets, and sapphics 'on the percussive keyboard of an open heart.' In the 'primal endzone' of human relationships, parenting and partnering teach that 'letting / what matters go, some part I need most, stays.' The languages of natural history and psychology undergird this collection, honoring the interconnectedness of communities and individuals. An experimental, lyrical Intelligence powers these original poems."
—Robin Becker