A Sacramento poet by way of Indiana, Jeanine Stevens is the author of two poetry books: Inheritor, Future Cycle Press and Sailing on Milkweed (a finalist for the ABZ First Book Prize), published by Cherry Grove Collections. Tiger's Eye Press released her latest chapbook, Needle in the Sea. She has other chapbooks from Poets Corner Press, Indian Heritage Council, Green Fuse Poetic Arts and Rattlesnake Press. Jeanine has won poetry awards from the MacGuffin Poet Hunt, the Stockton Arts Commission, Ekphrasis, The Bay Area Poet's Coalition, Mendocino Coast Writer's Conference, WOMR Cape Cod Community Radio and was one of two finalists for the William Stafford Award. She has four Pushcart Nominations. Her poems have appeared in The Evansville Review, Tipton Poetry Journal, Verse Wisconsin, Arsenic Lobster, Perfume River, Clackamas Literary Review, Forge Poetry Journal, Pearl, Cider Press Review, Rosebud, Penumbra, Edge, Centrifugal Eye, Stoneboat and North Dakota Review. Instructor at American River College for thirty two years, she taught courses in Anthropology, Women's Studies and Psychology. Jeanine also edited newsletters for the California Postsecondary Education Commission and the California Department of Transportation. Besides writing, she also enjoys Romanian folk dance and collage. Many of her art pieces have illustrated her poems and chapbooks and have been exhibited at Red Dot Gallery, DaDas Art Gallery and the Sacramento Poetry Center.
