Jean Nordhaus’s poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Poetry, APR, and Gettysburg Review among other journals and in 5 collections, including The Porcelain Apes of Moses Mendelssohn from Milkweed Editions and Innocence from Ohio State University Press. Her poem “On the Road to Qumran” won the 2014 Tiferet Journal poetry contest. Her most recent collection is Memos from the Broken World, published by Mayapple Press in January, 2016. She currently serves as Review Editor of Poet Lore.