August 10, 2025

Jenny Qi

John Doe is a passionate poet whose work explores the depths of human emotion and experience.

Jenny Qi is the author of Focal Point, winner of the 2020 Steel Toe Books Poetry Award. Her work appears in The New York Times, The Atlantic, High Country News, and elsewhere. She is working on a hybrid collection and a memoir in conversation with her late mother’s writings. She holds a Ph.D. in Cancer Biology from UCSF.

A dead woman is silent.

Is a dead woman good?

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As for why poetry, I’ve often said that I was initially drawn to the emotional immediacy of it. Even if you haven’t logic-ed your way somewhere yet, in poems you can feel your way toward clarity.

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