Jolene Brink holds a B.A. from the College of St. Benedict/St. John’s University and an M.F.A. from The University of Montana, where her poetry chapbook Peregrine (Red Bird Chapbooks), won the Merriam-Frontier Award.
Her essays and poetry have appeared in Orion, The New England Review, Poetry Northwest, The Carolina Quarterly, Southern Humanities Review, Post Road, and others.
She lives in Minnesota, where she works as a project manager for a local lumberyard and leads a citizen volunteer group working to turn an industrial brownfield on Lake Superior into a community green space.
