J. C. Todd is author of a collection of poems, What Space This Body (Wind, 2008) and two chapbooks, Nightshade and Entering Pisces. Individual poems have appeared in The Paris Review, American Poetry Review, and are forthcoming in the anthology What’s Your Exit? (Word Riot Press). Awards include a poetry fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and scholarships to the Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators in Sweden and the Kunsterhaus, Schloss Wiepersdorf in Germany.
As a former contributing editor for The Drunken Boat, she has edited features on contemporary poetry from Lithuania, Latvia and Slovenia. She is a lecturer in Creative Writing at Bryn Mawr College and in the graduate English program at Rosemont College and holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.
Credits:
“Pissing,” “On the Beach,” What Space This Body (Wind Publications, 2008)
“On the Beach” also a finalist in the Poetry Society of America’s Lucille Medwick Award, 2006
“In Late Summer the Sea Comes to the City,” Dogwood, 2005; Verse Daily 6/9/05.