Jennifer Bowen Hicks was a 2014 Bread Loaf Rona Jaffe Scholar in nonfiction whose work has been honored with a Tim McGinnis Award from the Iowa Review, a Best American Essay notable mention, a Pushcart Prize special mention, the Arts & Letters Prize, and more. Her essays and stories appear in Iowa Review, North American Review, Third Coast, Rumpus, and elsewhere. She is the founder and artistic director of the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop and teaches creative writing in prisons throughout Minnesota.
Fall 2016: The Poetics of Science
An Inquiry into Epigenetics
Epi: on top of, (or in addition to) . . . genetics Epi: on top of, like a padlock, clasped around our DNA, until something—(a toxin, good love, a war)—flicks […]