Jane Satterfield

Jane Satterfield is a poet and essayist born in Corby, England to an American airman and a British mother. Her five books of poetry are The Badass Brontës (Diode Editions Poetry Prize), Apocalypse Mix (Autumn House Poetry Prize), Her Familiars (Elixir Press), Assignation at Vanishing Point (Elixir Press Poetry Award), and Shepherdess with an Automatic (Washington Writers’ Publishing House, Towson University Prize). She has received a National Endowment for the Arts poetry fellowship, Bellingham Review’s 49th Parallel Award for Poetry, and the Ledbury Poetry Festival Prize. Daughters of Empire:  A Memoir of a Year in Britain and Beyond (Demeter Press) featured selections that received Florida Review’s Editors’ Prize, the Faulkner Society/Pirate’s Alley Essay Award, and the John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize. Her work appears in The Common, Ecotone, The Missouri Review, and Shenandoah. She is married to poet Ned Balbo and lives in Baltimore, where she is a professor of writing at Loyola University Maryland.

Jane Satterfield's Autumn House Books