Jacqui Germain

Jacqui Germain is a poet and journalist living in St. Louis, Missouri. She’s the author of the poetry collection Bittering the Wound (winner of the 2021 Center for African American Poetry and Poetics Book Prize, Autumn House Press), which was awarded the Kate Tufts Discovery Award in 2024 by Claremont Graduate University. She’s also the author of the chapbook, When the Ghosts Come Ashore (runner-up for the 2014 Button Poetry Prize, Button Poetry). She has received poetry and journalism fellowships from the Economic Security Project, the St. Louis Regional Arts Commission, Jack Jones Literary Arts, and Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop. Her poetry won the James H. Nash Poetry Prize in 2020, and has been published in The Offing, Poem-A-Day, The Rumpus, Muzzle Magazine, and Bettering American Poetry.

Jacqui Germain's Autumn House Books