---

Jenn Morea’s book, The Hyacinth Letter, was awarded the 2024 Sappho’s Prize in Poetry from Headmistress Press. She is the lyricist of the Candy Claws album Ceres & Calypso in the Deep Time. Her single-edition artist’s book, In a space along the margin of a field, was featured in The Magic Child Repository: A Collection of Handmade Books and Book Objects.

An educator for three decades, she served as Education Director at Arts & Literature Laboratory in Madison, WI and has taught at the Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago, Columbia College Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Louisiana State University, and with two dozen community arts organizations.

Her teaching practice has been written about in Teaching Photography: Tools for the Imaging Educator, the Chicago Guide for Teaching and Learning in the Arts Pre-K-12 and AIMprint: New Relationships in the Arts and Learning. In her creative and teaching practices, she has collaborated with visual artists, musicians, poets, choreographers, dancers, theater artists, filmmakers and photographers, and with science, social studies, math, music, art, and creative movement teachers.

Jenn is a Changing Worlds’ Survive & Thrive ArtsWork Fund recipient. She trained as a meditator for twenty years and teaches poetry and meditation to students of all ages. She lives in Chicago.

---