Mentors

Jennifer Steele

Mentor

Jennifer Steele is a native of Connecticut. She is a teaching artist for various organizations around the city of Chicago including Hands On Stanzas, Camp of Dreams, and Young Chicago Authors. In her previous lives she has also worked with the Hill-Stead Museum and the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, and served as co-editor for the Columbia Poetry Review 21. Her poems have appeared in Columbia Poetry Review, Caduceus, Warpland Journal, and Beltway Quarterly Online.

She received her B.M. from Howard University and her M.F.A. from Columbia College Chicago. Although she remains a resident of Chicago, she will always be an east coast girl at heart.