Jenna Butler

Jenna Butler is an award-winning poet and essayist whose work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies around the world. She is the author of three books of poetry, Seldom Seen Road (NeWest Press 2013), Wells (University of Alberta Press 2012) and Aphelion (NeWest Press 2010). Her book of essays is A Profession of Hope: Farming on the Edge of the Grizzly Trail (Wolsak and Wynn, 2015), and her latest work is the poetic travelogue Magnetic North: Sea Voyage to Svalbard (University of Alberta Press, 2018).

Butler is a professor of Creative Writing and Ecocriticism at Red Deer College in Canada. She lives with a den of coyotes and three resident moose on an organic farm in Alberta's north country.