A native of Houston and a resident of New York, Jeni Olin studied at Oxford and Cambridge before receiving her BA and MFA degrees from Naropa University. Her work has appeared in The Portable Boog Reader, The Hat, LIT, Hanging Loose, and many other magazines.

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This is Jeni Olin’s second full collection of poems, following her exciting debut, Blue Collar Holiday.

Writing about that book, John Ashbery praised her “wonderfully caustic and vulnerable lyrics,” adding that “Olin’s voice is both raw and strangely accommodating. This is a marvelous debut.”