Jennifer Spector is an American writer from New York City, living and working in Panama. Her work embraces a poetics of place and dialogue with the natural world, as it alters, translates, or abstracts in retrieval. Her projects and collaborations have led her to remote communities throughout Panama, most recently in the provinces of Darién and Vergauas. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as Shearsman, Fulcrum, Alterity One : Being Drawn, Reliquiae: A Journal of Contemporary and Historical Responses to Landscape & Nature, La Vague, Tzak: A Journal of Translational Poetics, Molly Bloom, and Litmus Magazine, with poetic contributions in various chapbooks such as Rebecca Clark’s Book of Hours: An Artist’s Book for the Anthropocene, Contemporary Poetry: Nature & Sentience, and in Suelo (vol.1), and as Panama correspondent for PSi #21: Fluid States Interoceanic, Jennifer’s prose reflections and photo essays were published on the conference “ship’s log.”
Currently, she is developing a series of site–responsive “fieldings” and artistic collaborations environed by landscape and ambient poetics, an interchange of art practice and poiesis, cultural histories and traditional craft from Gobernadora Island in the Gulf of Montijo, Veraguas and other provinces in Panama.
Jennifer graduated from Bennington College, earning her B.A. in Literature and holds an M.A. in Literature from the City College of New York. She has been the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize and a Summer Literary Seminars fellowship, and has held residencies at Investigación Colectiva: Alma Performática, and at Suelo – Estudio Nuboso’s arts and human ecology exchange.
Contact: jspectorstudio@gmail.com
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