Want, the Lake

About Jenny Factor

Jenny Factor is an archaeologist of object and mind a feminist a mother and a dog-lover. An inhabitant of doubled geographies Jenny helps to organize the monthly Caltech Poetry Lunch while studying 18-century womens poetry networks at Brandeis University. Her first collection Unraveling at the Name won the Hayden Carruth Award and was a Lambda Literary Award Finalist. Factors writing has appeared in more than a dozen anthologies including Poetry 180 The Best American Erotic Poems Prairie Schooner the Gay & Lesbian Review and the Paris Review. Her work has been supported by an Astraea Grant in poetry and acknowledged with a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg honorable mention. Jenny lectures Poetry at Caltech and is the former core faculty member in Poetry at the MFA in Creative Writing program at Antioch University. She divides her time between Pasadena CA and Marblehead MA.