Jenna Butler was born in Norwich, England in 1980. She is an educator, book reviewer and poet who currently makes her home in Edmonton, Alberta. Her work has been widely published in literary magazines and journals, and she has edited over twenty-five collections of poetry in Canada and England. Selected  anthology credits include Otherwheres (Pen & Inc. Press), String to Bow (Leaf Press), The Moosehead Anthology X: Future Welcome (DC Books) and Writing the Land: Alberta Through Its Poets (House of Blue Skies). She is currently working toward a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of East Anglia, UK. Butler is the author of three short collections, Forcing Bloom, Winter Ballast, and Weather. A full-length collection, Aphelion, is forthcoming from NeWest Press. Butler is the founding editor of the international chapbook publisher Rubicon Press.

Awards
Susan Rebecca Green Award for Fiction (1996)
ATA Anthology (1997)
Royal Canadian Legion Poetry Award (1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1997, 1998)
Hazel Alberta Robinson Award (2003)
James Patrick Folinsbee Prize (2004)
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Alberta Anthology  (2004)
Feile Filiochta International Poetry Competition (Shortlisted, 2005)
CV2 2-Day Poem Contest (First place, 2006)

Selected Publications
Forcing Bloom (above/ground press, 2008) forthcoming
weather (Red Nettle Press, 2008) forthcoming
Winter Ballast (The Olive Reading Series (Extra Virgin Press), 2008) forthcoming

Selected Anthologies
Otherwheres (Pen & Inc. Press, 2005) ISBN: 1-902913-25-6
The Moosehead Anthology X: Future Welcome (DC Books, 2005) ISBN: 1-897190-06-9
Writing the Land: Alberta Through Its Poets (House of Blue Skies Press, 2007) ISBN 3: 978-0-9784588-0-5

Jenna Butler
E-mail: editor@rubiconpress.org
Websites: www.jennabutler.com / www.rubiconpress.org