Lake Forest College News

Jennifer Moxley was born in San Diego, California in 1964. After living in France, she returned to California and studied at the University of California, San Diego.  She later received two degrees from Brown University and, in the 1990s, edited the poetry magazine The Impercipient and an important series of writing on poetics, the Impercipient Lecture Series. After more time in France, she returned to the United States where she and her partner the scholar Steve Evans settled in Maine.  Moxley is the author of Clampdown (Flood, 2009), The Middle Room (Subpress, 2008), The Line (Post-Apollo, 2007), Often Capital (Flood, 2005), The Sense Record and other poems (Edge, 2002; rpt. Salt, 2003), and Imagination Verses (Tender Buttons, 1996; rpt. Salt, 2003), among other works.  Her work has been translated into French, and she herself has translated the works of the French poet Jacqueline Risset.  Her work appeared in the anthology The Best American Poetry 2002, and she is the poetry editor for The Baffler magazine.  She teaches at the University of Maine, where she works with the National Poetry Foundation.