About Me.

Based in West Texas, Jennifer Loyd is a poet, translator, and a former editor for Copper Nickel, West Branch, and Sycamore Review. For her poetry exploring the archives of Rachel Carson, she has received a Stadler Fellowship, as well as travel grants for research from Purdue University, where she earned an MFA. Her poems and prose, which explore the intersection between private voice and public narratives, appear in Best New Poets 2022, The Southern Review, The Rumpus, Shenandoah, Prairie Schooner, Poet Lore, and elsewhere.

LITERARY EDITING
2020-2021    West Branch, Associate Poetry Editor
2018-2020    Sycamore Review,  Managing Editor
2014-2017    Copper Nickel, Senior Editor


EDUCATION

2025     Texas Tech University: PhD in English
 
2020     Purdue University: MFA in Creative Writing: Poetry
                                               
2016     University of Colorado Denver: B. A. in English 
        
2010     Front Range Community College: A. A. S. in Horticulture 

AWARDS / RECOGNITION

2023     Benjamin Rude Memorial Scholarship 
2023     Helen DeVitt Jones Graduate Fellowship
2022     Best American New Poets 2022
2020     Stadler Fellowship (Bucknell University)
2020     Distinguished Master’s Creative Work Award
2020     Purdue Promise Grant
2020     Purdue Literary Awards: Best Lyric Sequence of Poems
2019     Purdue Promise Grant
2019     Purdue Literary Awards: Nonfiction, Best Poem, & Best                    Long Poem
2016     Reisher Scholarship
2016     Summa Cumme Laude (University of Colorado Denver)

RESEARCH PROJECTS

"Ghosts in the Archive"--the role of the individual voice within larger historical narratives and the way dominant narratives, in archives, for example, can erase nonnormative parts of a person's life

The Contemporary Sublime—literature that attempts to make the ineffable "effable," that reaches, as Longinus put it, “beyond the realm of the human condition into greater mystery.” 

Psychogeography— the intersection of place and psychology in literature