Jennifer Whalen (she/her) is a poet, educator, & labor organizer from the Northern Kentucky/Cincinnati, Ohio area. She is the author of the poetry collection Eveningful, which was selected by Rick Barot as the winner of the Lightscatter Press Prize. Her poems can be found in Gulf Coast, Denver Quarterly, Fourteen Hills, Sixth Finch, Grist, The Boiler, & elsewhere. She previously served as writer-in-residence at Texas State University’s Clark House & currently teaches English at the University of Illinois Springfield.