Jennifer MacKenzie‘s first full-length book of poems, My Not-My Soldier, was published in December as part of Fence Books Modern Poets Series. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Lungfull, Forklift Ohio and Poets for Living Waters, and her prose in the Huffington Post, Guernica, the Kenyon Review online, and Killing the Buddha. She lives in the Bronx where she teaches English composition and journalism at Lehman College.
“Mackenzie’s poetry navigates loss; the distance between relationships and whole countries, & pain that can’t be held inside (or by) the body
