Jeni Prater

(she/they)

Jeni Prater is published or forthcoming in Apogee Journal, Frontier Poetry, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Hooligan Mag, Wax Poetry: 45 Poems of Protest, and elsewhere and was awarded the Academy of American Poets Prize at Wellesley College. Their poems explore queer joy and nonbinary parenthood. She is an MFA candidate at Randolph College and was Accessibility Coordinator for Feminine Empowerment Movement Slam. Jeni lives in Northampton, Massachusetts with their wife, pup, and 73 houseplants.

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“After the Blood” and Other Poems
Community Anthologies
The gift of Jeni Prater’s poems is their effortless ability to render the mundane a miracle, the invisible seen, and the “unconventional” a beautiful new future. As her words search for life, sifting through the complexities of biology and bureaucracy both, her readers are unwittingly captivated by the tenderness of her tireless pursuit.

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