Jane Springer

Jane Springer is an American poet and academic.

Life
Springer was born in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. She graduated from Florida State University with a Ph.D. in creative writing.

She is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Hamilton College. Her work has appeared in AGNI, Sycamore Review. She is married; they have a son.

Recognition
Springer has been a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow. Dear Blackbird won the 2006 Agha Shahid Ali Prize. She won a 2010 Whiting Writers' Award.

Publications

 * Dear Blackbird. University of Utah Press, 2007.
 * Murder Ballad. Farmington, ME: Alice James Books, May 2012