Jennifer Freed writes and teaches from Massachusetts. Her chapbook, These Hands Still Holding (Finishing Line, 2014) was a finalist for the New Women's Voices competition. Her full-length poetry collection, When Light Shifts, (Kelsay, 2022) was a finalist for the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize and the Medal Provocateur prize for poetry and won Second Place for the Eric Hoffer 2025  Legacy Nonfiction Award, where it was also shortlisted for the Eric Hoffer Grand Prize.

"Freed’s poems are precise, but never unfeeling, and she is alert to the moments when words won’t take us where we need to go. These poems operate in the deepest wells of experience: fear and frustration and love and pain."
        --Nina MacLaughlin for The Boston Globe May 19, 2022
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