Jill McDonough

Jill McDonough
NationalityAmerican
Alma materStanford University,
Boston University
Genrepoetry
Notable awardsWitter Bynner Fellowship,
Lannan Literary Award

Jill Susann McDonough is an American poet.

Life[edit]

She grew up in North Carolina. She graduated from Stanford University and has an MA from Boston University.[1] She taught in the Prison Education Program of Boston University.[2] Currently, she is a Professor at University of Massachusetts Boston.[3]

Her work has appeared in The Threepenny Review,[4] Oxford Magazine,[5] The New Republic, and Slate.[6] She is married to bartender and musician Josey Packard. She has written of her marriage in an essay titled "A Natural History of my Marriage".[7]

Awards[edit]

Bibliography[edit]

Collections[edit]

  • McDonough, Jill (2008). Habeas corpus. Cambridge: Salt Publishing. OCLC 671805276.
  • Where you live, London: Salt, 2012, ISBN 9781844719099, OCLC 811345862
  • Reaper, Farmington, ME: Alice James Books, 2017, ISBN 9781938584268, OCLC 959035781
  • Here All Night, Farmington, ME: Alice James Books, 2019, ISBN 9781948579025 [9]
  • American Treasure, Farmington, ME: Alice James Books, 2022, ISBN 9781948579292 [10]

Anthologies[edit]

  • McDonough, Jill, ed. (2000). Forgotten eyes : poetry from prison. Boston: Metropolitan College, Boston University. OCLC 46677483.

List of poems[edit]

Title Year First published Reprinted/collected
Preface 2011 McDonough, Jill (July 23, 2011). "Preface". Harvard Review Online. Retrieved 2015-04-16. McDonough, Jill (2013). "Preface". In Henderson, Bill (ed.). The Pushcart Prize XXXVII : best of the small presses 2013. Pushcart Press. pp. 398–399.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Jill McDonough | Boston Athenæum".
  2. ^ "Habeas Corpus". Archived from the original on 2011-04-29. Retrieved 2011-06-29.
  3. ^ Boston, UMass. "Jill.McDonough - UMass Boston". www.umb.edu. Retrieved 2024-04-04.
  4. ^ "Threepenny: McDonough, Accident".
  5. ^ "Jill McDonough - Poems". www.jillmcdonough.com. Retrieved 2018-03-29.
  6. ^ McDonough, Jill (23 October 2007). ""Breasts Like Martinis"". Slate.
  7. ^ "A Natural History: Jill McDonough". 9 December 2009.
  8. ^ "NEA Writers' Corner: Jill McDonough". Archived from the original on 2011-10-16. Retrieved 2011-06-29.
  9. ^ "Here All Night (eBook)". Alice James Books. Retrieved 2024-04-04.
  10. ^ "American Treasure by Jill McDonough (EPUB)". Alice James Books. Retrieved 2024-04-04.

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