Jennifer Martelli is the author of The Queen of Queens and
My Tarantella (Bordighera Press), awarded an Honorable
Mention from the Italian-American Studies Association,
selected as a “Must Read” by the Massachusetts Center for
the Book, and named as a finalist for the Housatonic Book
Award. She is also the author of the chapbooks All Things are
Born To Change Their Shapes, winner of the Small Harbor
Press open reading, In the Year of Ferraro from Nixes Mates,
and After Bird, winner of the Grey Book Press open reading.
Her work has appeared in The Academy of American Poets
Poem-a-Day, Poetry, Atticus Review, The Tahoma Literary
Review, Scoundrel Time,Verse Daily, Iron Horse Review
(winner of the Photo Finish contest), and elsewhere. Jennifer
Martelli has twice received grants from the Massachusetts
Cultural Council for her poetry. She is co-poetry editor for
Mom Egg Review. www.jennmartelli.com