Jen Siraganian

Jen Siraganian is an Armenian-American writer, educator, and former Poet Laureate of Los Gatos, California. Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, won the 2024 New Ohio Review Poetry Prize, and has appeared in AGNI, Best New Poets, Cincinnati Review, Cortland Review, Poetry Daily, Prairie Schooner, and The Rumpus. Her current manuscript Journal for Pomegranates has been a finalist of the Tupelo Press Dorset Prize, the Perugia Press Prize, and the University of Wisconsin’s Brittingham and Felix Pollak Prizes, and a semi-finalist for the Persea Books’ Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize, Philip Levine Prize, and Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry. A former managing director of Litquake: San Francisco’s Literary Festival, she is a current Lucas Artist Fellow.