Jenny Factor
Jenny Factor is an archaeologist of object and mind, a feminist, a mother, and a dog-lover. An inhabitant of doubled geographies, Jenny helps to organize the monthly Caltech Poetry Lunch while studying eighteenth-century women’s poetry networks at Brandeis University. Her first collection, Unraveling at the Name (Copper Canyon Press), won the Hayden Carruth Award and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Christina Pugh writes of that volume in Poetry, Jenny’s “verse forms sing with idiosyncrasy.” Factor’s poems and reviews have appeared in more than a dozen anthologies, including Poetry 180 and The Best American Erotic Poems (Scribner, 2008), and in Prairie Schooner, theGay & Lesbian Review, and the Paris Review. Her work has been supported by an Astraea Grant in poetry and acknowledged with a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg honorable mention. Jenny serves as Lecturer in Poetry at Caltech and is the former core faculty member in Poetry at the MFA in Creative Writing program at Antioch University Los Angeles, a writing program devoted to literature and social justice. She divides her time between Pasadena, California, and Marblehead, Massachusetts.
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