Jennifer Grotz

Jennifer Grotz
Born	1971 Texas
Occupation	Poet Translator Professor Literary Critic
Nationality	American
Genre	Poetry

Jennifer Grotz (born 1971) is an American poet and translator who teaches English and creative writing at the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers and at the University of Rochester, where she is Professor of English. She is also a contributing editor for Born Magazine. In 2017 she was named the seventh director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.

Grotz grew up in small Texas towns but has lived in France and Poland, all of which inform her poems. Grotz holds degrees from Tulane University (BA), Indiana University (MA and MFA), and the University of Houston (PhD). She also studied literature at the University of Paris (La Sorbonne), where she discovered her interest in translating French Poetry. Her poems, translations, and reviews have appeared in many literary journals and magazines, and her work has been included in Best American Poetry. She is the first woman to direct the Breadloaf Writers' Conferences.

She currently lives in Rochester, New York, but spends part of her year in France and Poland.

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