Jennifer Rood

Jennifer Rood has been writing poems and stories since first grade, when her teacher would make time for her to read her work to the class. She has dozens of published poems in various journals and anthologies, including Verseweavers, Slant, Snapdragon, GreenPrints, FrogPond, and others. She is a past Board Member (2018-2021) and President (2020-21) of the Oregon Poetry Association, and recently won first place for her prose poem “Breaking” in OPA’s Fall 2022 Contest. In 2023, she released What the Heart Says, a chapbook of found poetry/art (available through oregonbooks.com), and is looking forward to the release of a full-length book of her found poetry/art through Not A Pipe Publishing in the coming year. After raising a family and working variously as a high school English, social studies, and art teacher for the past 30 years, she is happily anticipating her retirement and the many new creative opportunities it will make room for, including serving as the artist-in-residence for the Oregon Caves National Monument in fall 2023.