Jennifer Militello

Jennifer Militello is the Poet Laureate of New Hampshire. She is the author of the hybrid collection Identifying the Pathogen (Tupelo Press, 2026), named a finalist for the FC2 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize; the memoir Knock Wood, winner of the Dzanc Nonfiction Prize; and five collections of poetry. The most recent, The Pact (Tupelo Press/Shearsman Books, 2021), was called “emotionally resonant” by Publishers Weekly and “an incantatory homage to love” by the Times Literary Supplement. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, American Poetry Review, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, and Poetry. She teaches in the MFA program at New England College.