Jeannine Savard

Associate Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Education

M.A., University of New Hampshire

Bio

Jeannine Savard has published four volumes of poetry: Snow Water
Cove (U. of Utah P 1998, re-published with Carnegie Mellon UP
2005), Trumpeter (Carnegie-Mellon UP 1993), and My Hand
Upon Your Name (Red Hen Press 2005). Her new manuscript of
poems, Accounted For, is forthcoming with Red Hen
Press,Spring 2011. She was awarded the Jerome J. Shestack Prize for
poetry from The American Poetry Review, the Carnegie Mellon Poetry
Prize, and has published poems in a number of journals such as The
North American Review, Ploughshares, Hayden's Ferry Review, The
American Poetry Review, Manoa, The Kenyon Review, The Southern
Review, The Bennington Review, The Antioch Review, Quarterly
West, and many more.

It has been said of her work that: "...her delicate lyrical
meditations turn quietly both metaphysical and speculative, Jeannine
Savard offers us a world made luminous by daily ceremony and spiritual
congruence." (David St. John) And more recently: "Her poems
are those invitations which shape time. We do not expect them in our
lives but when they have come we cannot imagine their absence, or what
we could have known of ourselves without them." (Dave Smith)
Professor Savard is an Associate Professor of English and teaches both
graduate and undergraduate workshops in poetry.