Jenny Burkholder
Jenny Burkholder is a writer and teacher who lives and works in Pennsylvania. The former Montgomery County Poet Laureate, she has published a poetry chapbook Repaired (Finishing Line Press, 2016), and her poems have appeared in The Calendula Review, 2River View, North American Review, Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing, The Maine Review, New American Writing, The Spoon River Poetry Review, and Glimmer Train, among others.
Her creative nonfiction and articles have appeared in Intima, Gramercy Review, Months to Years, Epiphany, The Healing Muse, and So to Speak, among others. She is the Creative Nonfiction Editor for Philadelphia Stories.
Her awards include an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship for Poetry, the Glimmer Train October Poetry Open award, and a finalist for The James Hearst Poetry Prize.
She's an active volunteer for Living Beyond Breast Cancer (LBBC) and a Hear My Voice Metastatic Breast Cancer Advocate. An avid yoga practitioner, she teaches at Blue Banyan Yoga Studio & School in Philadelphia.
She's the co-host of OVERexpressed & OUT, a podcast that amplifies Philadelphia-area pioneers--women transforming their communities.
Overexpressed
Overexpressed is a tribute to her "wildly HER2 positive" metastatic breast cancer. Diagnosed right after her 40th birthday dance party with early-stage breast cancer, she was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer right before the party on December 31, 2019.
Overexpressed not only describes the physiological function of her particular breast cancer, it also describes her life: live uninhibited; pay homage to women, writers, and language she admires; and tell her story.