Jen Hirt

Jen Hirt’s memoir, Under Glass: The Girl with a Thousand Christmas Trees (University of Akron Press/Ringtaw Books, 2010), won the Drake University Emerging Writer Award for 2011. Her essay “Lores of Last Unicorns,” published in The Gettysburg Review , won a 2010 Pushcart Prize. Her essays have also received the 2012 Gabehart Prize for nonfiction from the Kentucky Women Writers Conference, the 2003 Ohioana Walter Rumsey Marvin Grant, and a 2009 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Redivider , The Sonora Review , Confrontation , TriQuarterly , Colorado Review , and Quiddity . She is an assistant professor of creative writing at Penn State Harrisburg. Photo by Paul Cockeram, 2013

Photo by Paul Cockeram, 2013