writer
arts instructor
editor
THE BOOK OF KIN: Now available for preorder. Releasing October 21st, 2025
Jennifer is the Founding Artist Director of the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop. She teaches creative writing in prisons across the state of Minnesota, and occasionally at local colleges. She also edits creative prose and conducts interviews. Jen lives in St. Paul, a block in any direction from sidewalk poetry and snow.
Jennifer Eli Bowen is a writer, arts instructor, and editor, whose essay collection THE BOOK OF KIN: On Absence, Love, and Being There, Milkweed Press (2025) is available now for preorder. Her work has received a Pushcart Prize, The Arts and Letters Prize, The Tim McGinnis Award, and has appeared in The Sun, The Iowa Review, Orion, and Kenyon Review, among others.
