Jackie Bartley

Jackie Bartley graduated from Clarion University in Pennsylvania with a BS in biology and a BS in medical technology and worked as a medical technologist for fifteen years before she began writing poetry. She earned an MFA from Western Michigan University in 1988, and has been an adjunct assistant professor at Hope College since 1989.

Her poems have been published in a number of journals including Artful Dodge, JAMA, Hayden's Ferry Review, Tar River Poetry, West Branch, and Whetstone. Poems have also been included in a number of anthologies including Boomer Girls: Poems by Women from the Baby Boom Generation (Pamela Gemin & Paula Sergi, editors, Iowa UP, 1999), For a Living: The Poetry of Work (Nicholas Coles & Peter Oresick, editors, U of Illinois P, 1995), 1995/1996 Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry (Alan F. Pater, editor), Odd Angles of Heaven (David Craig & Janet McCann, editors, Harold Shaw Publishers, Wheaton IL, 1994), Uncharted Lines: Poems form the Journal of the American Medical Association (Charlene Breedlove, editor, AMA, Boaz Publishing, Albany CA, 1998), and Waiting for You to Speak: The Winning Poems of the 1998 Sandburg-Livesay Anthology Contest (Mekler & Deahl, Unfinished Monument Press, Pittsburgh PA, 1999). Her second chapbook, The Terrible Boundaries of the Body, won the 1996 White Eagle Coffee Store Press Award, and her first chapbook, When Prayer Is Far from Our Lips, was published by Franciscan University Press in 1994.

In 1993, Jackie received a creative artist grant from the Arts Foundation of Michigan in partnership with the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs. Among her most recent awards are residencies granted at Ragdale Foundation and at Mary Anderson Center for the Arts. A third chapbook, Threading the Bobbin, published by the DePree Art Center at Hope College, is part of a collaborative exhibit between Bartley and visual artist Katherine Kadish entitled Patterns. Her first full-length collection, Bloodroot, was published by Mellen Poetry Press in 2002. Her second full-length collection, Ordinary Time, was published by Spire Press in 2007.

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