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Jennifer K. Sweeney is an American poet.

Life
Jennifer K. Sweeney is the author of two award-winning poetry books, How to Live on Bread and Music (Perugia Press, Winner of the 2009 Perugia Prize), and Salt Memory (Main Street Rag, winner of the 2006 Main Street Rag Poetry Award). Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Southern Review, Hunger Mountain, Crab Orchard, Spoon River and Passages North where she won the 2009 Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize. She was awarded a Cultural Equities Grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission and a residency from Hedgebrook. Sweeney holds an MFA from Vermont College and serves as assistant editor for DMQ Review. Born in 1973, she grew up in Tolland, Connecticut. After teaching in San Francisco for twelve years, she currently lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan, with her husband, poet Chad Sweeney.

Books
“How to Live on Bread and Music”. Perugia Press, Winner of the Perugia Press Prize, 2009.

“Salt Memory”. Main Street Rag Press, Winner of the Main Street Rag Poetry Award, 2006.

Reviews
Review of Salt Memory. Poetry International, Issue 12, 2008.

Review of “Salt Memory”. The Pedestal, Issue 37.

Poems Online
“Happy People”. Hunger Mountain, 2009.

“How to Grow a Mushroom”. The Pedestal, Issue 51.

“How to Live on Bread and Music,” “Comfort”. Del Sol Review, Summer 2008, 15.

“33 Umbrellas”. DMQ Review, May 2007.

“How to Make Armor”. Parthenon West Review, Issue 5.

“What Call,” “How to Make a Game of Waiting”. Electronic Poetry Review, Issue 8.

“The Bird Carver”. The Pedestal, Issue 35.

Video/Audio Links
“Of Gravity and Will”. Moe’s Books, Berkeley, CA, August 2008.

“Full Poetry Reading at Moe’s”. Moe’s Books, Berkeley, CA, August 2008.

“Apology,” “Ode to a Banana Slug”. Parthenon West Review, Issue 1, 2004.