“Beautiful, brave, and inventive.”
~Hanif Abdurraqib
writer
arts instructor
editor
”Honest, entertaining, and heart-wrenching,” Chicago Review of Books
Debutiful's Best Nonfiction Books of 2025
The Millions Most Anticipated Books of 2025
Minnesota Book Award Finalist
Friends of American Writers Literature Award
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, is available from Milkweed Press. Her work has received a Pushcart Prize, The Susan Atefat Arts and Letters Prize, and has appeared in The Sun, The Iowa Review, Orion, Literary Hub, and Kenyon Review, among others.
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