Jill McDonough

Jill Susann McDonough is an American poet.

She grew up in North Carolina She graduated from Stanford University, and has an MA from Boston University. She taught in the Prison Education Program of Boston University.

Her work has appeared in The Threepenny Review, The New Republic, and Slate. . She is married to bartender and musician Josey Packard. She has written of her marriage in an essay titled "A Natural History of my Marriage".

Awards

 * National Endowment for the Arts fellow
 * Fine Arts Work Center fellow
 * Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center fellow
 * Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University
 * 2010 Witter Bynner Fellowship

Works

 * Faith. The body. Home, Boston University, 1998
 * Forgotten eyes: poetry from prison, Metropolitan College, Boston University, 2000
 * Habeas corpus, Salt Publishing, 2008, ISBN 978-1-84471-472-8