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Jennifer Kite-Powell (Hicks) is an American author, poet, journalist and entrepreneur. She was born in San Antonio, Texas on November 12, 1964. Her first book, Love, Lust, Longing and Truth was published in 2017 and is a 100-page collection of stream of consciousness poetry. The book is illustrated by New York environmental artist, Chantal Calato.

Kirkus Reviews said Jennifer’s debut volume of poetry was a bold and exhilarating collection of erotic, stream-of-consciousness poems. Jennifer’s second book of poetry Deluge in a paper cup was a carefully curated collection of 15 poems in 27 pages, published on June 24, 2020, and features the art of Calato on the cover and inside pages.

Jennifer is also a senior tech contributor for Forbes.com since 2010 and writes about consumer technology and science. Her news and feature articles highlight how consumers will use technology and are geared towards artificial intelligence, surveillance, robotics, augmented reality, virtual reality, wearables and biotech in health, business, art, agriculture and the environment.

In 2017, Jennifer interviewed Jane Goodall at the Hollywood Bowl for her documentary Jane produced by National Geographic.

Jennifer is a frequent speaker at tech and lifestyle events including ComicCon 2018 as the panel moderator of National Geographic Channel’s When Earthlings Become Martians: MARS Season 2, National Geographic on, 20 July 2018; Pioneers Festival on A New Cambrian Era: Biotech 2.0, on November 24, 2014 (Austria); and Web Summit, Where we’re going we don’t need roads: Flying cars are coming (2017, Portugal). Jennifer was featured on several podcasts including Mike Feibus’s Privacy Now videocast, How Scary are Deep Fakes?, and the Dimmen podcast, On Poetry with Jennifer Kite-Powell in 2018 in Amsterdam and PR and the death of the press release in January 2019.

Jennifer is a contributor and publicist for UNSEEN, a multi-media art installation by Chantal Calato at the Burchfield Penney Art Museum in Buffalo, NY in 2020.

Jennifer started one of the first global, virtual tech communications agency, Spilled INK (formerly ink Communications) in 2000. The firm was acquired in September 2014 by San Francisco/Amsterdam-based PR agency, Mercury Global Partners.

In 2012, Jennifer was selected as one of the top 100 women in technology in Europe by GirlsInTech.