Jen Currin
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Jen Currin is an American/Canadian poet and fiction writer. Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, she is currently based in Vancouver, British Columbia and teaches creative writing at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.[1] Her 2010 collection The Inquisition Yours won the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry in 2011,[1] and was shortlisted for that year's Lambda Literary Award, Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and ReLit Award.[1] Her 2014 collection School was a finalist for the Pat Lowther Award, the Dorothy Livesay Prize, and a ReLit Award.
Currin has published two prior poetry collections, The Sleep of Four Cities and Hagiography.[2]
Her debut short story collection, Hider/Seeker, was published in 2018.[3] It won a Canadian Independent Book Award and was shortlisted for the 2019 ReLit Award for short fiction.[4]
