Jennifer Givhan
Jennifer Givhan is an award-winning Mexican-American poet and novelist whose family has ancestral ties to the Indigenous peoples of New Mexico and Texas. Her books of poetry include Belly to the Brutal, Landscape with Headless Mama (Winner of the Pleiades Press Editors Prize for Poetry), Protection Spell (Finalist, Miller Williams poetry prize), Girl with Death Mask (Winner of the Blue Lights Book Prize), and Rosa's Einstein (Camino de Sol series). Her honors include an honorable mention for 2021 The Rudolfo Anaya Best Latino Focused Fiction Book Award category from the International Latino Book Awards Foundation, a 2020 Southwest Book Award, the 2019 New Ohio Review Poetry Prize, Cutthroat Journal's 2018 Joy Harjo Poetry Prize and more.