Welcome! This week's featured poet is the Editor of Winning Writers, who also happens to BE a winning writer...Jendi Reiter! Jendi has several books on the market and has earned multiple awards, including two from the prestigious, Poetry Society of America. Thank you, Jendi, for sharing "Ovotestes" (with special thanks and first publish credits to Mom Egg Review) and "Corpse Flower Studbook," both of which can be found in Made Man (Little Red Tree, 2022).
Ovotestes
Corpse Flower Studbook
Jendi Reiter is the author of the novel Two Natures (Saddle Road Press, 2016), the short story collection An Incomplete List of My Wishes (Sunshot Press, 2018), and five books of poetry, most recently Made Man (Little Red Tree, 2022) and Bullies in Love (Little Red Tree, 2015). Their awards include a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship for Poetry, the New Letters Prize for Fiction, the Wag's Revue Poetry Prize, the Bayou Magazine Editor's Prize in Fiction, and two awards from Poetry Society of America. Two Natures won the Rainbow Award for Best Gay Contemporary Fiction and was a finalist for the Book Excellence Awards and Lascaux Prize for Fiction. They are the editor of WinningWriters.com, an online resource site which provides contests and markets for creative writers.