Jennifer Tonge

Jennifer Tonge was born in Salt Lake City and received an MFA from the University of Utah. Her work has appeared in a number of literary journals and was selected for an NEA/Poetry Foundation Poetry Out Loud recitation project. In addition, she has received fellowships from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. Tonge has taught creative writing at the Universities of Utah, Wisconsin, and Texas as well as at Butler University.