Jane Ellen Glasser’s
poetry has appeared in numerous journals, such as Hudson Review,
Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Georgia Review, Poetry Northwest. Her
poems have garnered numerous awards from the Irene Leache Society, Puddingstone,
and the Poetry Society of Virginia, and she has been recognized for outstanding
articles on teaching poetry that were featured in Virginia English Bulletin
and English Journal. In the past she reviewed poetry books for the Virginian-Pilot,
edited poetry for the Ghent Quarterly
and Lady Jane’s Miscellany, and
co-founded the nonprofit arts organization and journal New Virginia
Review. A first collection of
her poetry, Naming the Darkness, with an introduction by W.D. Snodgrass,
was issued by Road Publishers in 1991. She won the Tampa Review Prize for
Poetry 2005, and her award-winning book, Light Persists, published by
Tampa University Press in April 2006, received an honorable mention in the 2007
Library of Virginia Literary Awards. Her chapbook On the Corner of Yesterday, published in 2010, was followed by The Long Life, which won the Poetica
Publishing Company Chapbook Contest 2011 and was released in December 2011. Her
collection The Red Coat, published in
2013, is available from FutureCycle
Press, which also published the chapbook Cracks
in 2015. Her work may be previewed on her website: www.janeellenglasser.com
