Rose Jenny
Poet/Playwright/Performer
Rose Jenny (she/her) is a trans writer/performer based in Nashville. Her poetry chapbook, My Apocrypha, is available through Bottlecap Press. Rose's other selected poems have been published (or are forthcoming) in SWWIM Every Day, Oroboro, Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly, South Florida Poetry Journal, Pensive Journal, new words {press}, and The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. As a playwright, she has produced her work through Marymount Manhattan College and the Midwinter Madness Short Play Festival at Roy Arias Studios in New York City. Her work has received additional support from Tin House and the Sewanee Writers' Conference; she was also a finalist for the 2025 Maureen Seaton Poetry Prize. Rose received her MFA in Creative Writing from University of Miami, where she was a Michener Fellow and poetry editor of sinking city.