Jehanne Dubrow is the author of fifteen books, including three books of nonfiction and ten poetry collections. She is the author of a craft book, The Wounded Line: A Guide to Writing Poems of Trauma. In September 2026, Columbia University Press will publish her book-length essay, Frivolity: A Defense, in August 2026.

Jehanne’s poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in numerous literary journals, including Poetry, Southern Review, Ploughshares, and The New England Review. Her work has been featured by The New York Times Magazine, The Slowdown, Fresh Air, The Academy of American Poets, as well as on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. She is the Series Editor for “Writing from Trauma,” a series of new books published by University of New Mexico Press that offer readers guidance in the craft of representing trauma in print and non-print media. 

Jehanne earned a BA in the “Great Books” from St. John’s College, an MFA in poetry from the University of Maryland, an MFA in creative nonfiction from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, and a PhD in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. 

She has been a recipient of numerous recognitions including the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry from Beloit Poetry Journal, the Crab Orchard Series Open Competition Award, the Editors’ Prize in Prose from Bat City Review, Eric Hoffer Book Award in Culture, the Firecracker Award in Prose from CLMP, ForeWord INDIES Book of the Year Award in Essays and in Poetry, the Mississippi Review Prize in Poetry, the Towson University Prize for Literature, a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship and a Howard Nemerov from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She was the first poet to receive a Sosland Foundation Fellowship from the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. She was also selected as the Mitchell J. Gerstein Distinguished Visiting Artist in the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto.

The daughter of American diplomats, Jehanne was born in Italy and grew up in Yugoslavia, Zaire, Poland, Belgium, Austria, and the United States. She is a Distinguished Research Professor and a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Texas. She is the founder of Linebreak / Literary, a private mentoring service for students, writers, and academics.