Jane Mead

Jane Mead (August 13, 1958 – September 8, 2019) was an American poet, author of five poetry collections. Her last volume was To the Wren: Collected & New Poems 1991-2019 (Alice James Books, 2019). Her honors included fellowships from the Lannan and Guggenheim Foundations, and a Whiting Award. Her poems appeared in literary journals and magazines including Ploughshares,[1] Electronic Poetry Review, The American Poetry Review, The New York Times, The Virginia Quarterly, The Antioch Review, and in anthologies including The Best American Poetry 1990.[2]

Born in Baltimore, Mead lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, until she was twelve. Her father taught ichthyology at Harvard University. After Cambridge, she moved around a great deal with her mother and stepfather, who was a journalist, living in New Mexico, London, and Cambridge, England. She graduated from Vassar College and from Syracuse University and the University of Iowa. She taught and was Poet-in-Residence at Wake Forest University.

After her father died in 2003, Mead managed the family ranch in Napa County, Northern California. She taught at New England College[3] and co-owned Prairie Lights in Iowa City, Iowa.

Mead died September 8, 2019, in Napa, from cancer.[4]

Honors and awards

Published works

Full-Length Poetry Collections

  • To the Wren: Collected & New Poems 1991-2019. Alice James Books. 2019. ISBN 978-1-948579-01-8.
  • World of Made and Unmade. Alice James Books. 2016. ISBN 978-1-938584-32-9.
  • Money Money Money I Water Water Water. Alice James Books. 2014. ISBN 978-1-938584-04-6.
  • The Usable Field. Alice James Books. 2008. ISBN 978-1-882295-69-2.
  • House of Poured-Out Waters. University of Illinois Press. 2001. ISBN 978-0-252-06944-4.
  • The Lord and the General Din of the World. Sarabande Books. 1996. ISBN 978-0-9641151-1-8.

Anthologies Edited

In Anthology

  • Melissa Tuckey, ed. (2018). Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0820353159.

References
  1. "Read By Author | Ploughshares". www.pshares.org.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-04-21. Retrieved 2009-09-14.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "Issues | Ploughshares". www.pshares.org.
  4. "Obituary: Jane Mead". Napa Valley Register. 14 September 2019. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-01-11. Retrieved 2009-09-14.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-04-12. Retrieved 2009-09-14.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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