Jenny Burkholder

Jenny Burkholder is a writer, teacher, and breast cancer advocate who lives and works in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. The former Montgomery County Poet Laureate, her poetry chapbook, Repaired, was published by Finishing Line Press, and her poems have been published in 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 been published or are appearing in 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 former LBBC Hear My Voice Metastatic Breast Cancer Advocate. She teaches and practices yoga at Blue Banyan Yoga Studio & School in Philadelphia.