Jennifer Habel is the author of Good Reason, winner of the 2011 Stevens Poetry Manuscript Competition, and In the Little House, winner of the 2008 Copperdome Chapbook Prize. Her poems have appeared in The Believer, Blackbird, Gulf Coast, LIT, The Massachusetts Review, The Southeast Review, and elsewhere. She is the Coordinator of Creative Writing at the University of Cincinnati.
“Unflinching in gaze, imbued with a sly wit, the poems in Jennifer Habel’s mesmerizing first book capture moments so quietly alive that they function like glass-domed terrariums; you lift a belled lid on a complex, breathing little world.”
— Lisa Olstein, author of Radio Crackling, Radio Gone