
Bio
Jennifer Stella is a writer and a doctor. Also a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer from Cameroon, she completed her MFA in poetry at Brooklyn College while in medical school in San Francisco and subsequent internal medicine residency in New York City. Her poetry and prose are published internationally. Writing has appeared in Calyx, Tupelo Quarterly, the Dusie Blog, Eleven Eleven, Der Grief, Pharos, and others. Her first chapbook, Your Lapidarium Feels Wrought, was published in 2016 (Ugly Duckling Presse) and her second chapbook, Letters We're Allowed, was published in 2019 (above/ground press). Jennifer has lived and worked in many countries over the past seven years with Doctors without Borders. Recently returned from Bangladesh, she is currently in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
