Jenny Qi, Ph.D.
Author of FOCAL POINT (2021)
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Winner of the 2020 Steel Toe Books Poetry Award and finalist for the 2022 Paterson Poetry Prize, Focal Point is a scientist’s unofficial dissertation, a daughter’s faithful corresponden…
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Upcoming Events 2026 Archive of past events here Past events 2025 October 25, 2025, 6:30-7:30PM PSTLitcrawl Phase 2: Campfire Stories and Other Ghostly Narrativeswith Doug Henderson, Jennifer Chris…
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Essay in NYT Mag
Essay in NYT Mag
On starting over and reshaping one’s path.
Essay in Lithub
Essay in Lithub
Poem in The Atlantic
Poem in The Atlantic
A poem for Sunday
Poem in Tin House
Poem in Tin House
Essay in NYT Modern Love
Essay in NYT Modern Love
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Vanderbilt Alumni Magazine profile
Vanderbilt Alumni Magazine profile
By Maria Browning Photography by Marc Olivier Le Blanc The opening poem in Focal Point, the debut collection by Jenny Qi, BA’11, navigates the fraught emotional space between a loving daughter’s grief over her mother’s death and a scientist’s clear-eyed inquiry into the disease—cancer—that caused it. Qi writes of “nights at a microscope in a […]
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Jenny Qi discusses her debut poetry collection, FOCAL POINT.
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Jenny Qi is a poet, writer, and scientist whose essays and poems have been published in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Tin House, Rattle, ZYZZYVA, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among other pl…
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ZYZZYVA interview
Jenny Qi’s first poetry collection, Focal Point (98 pages; Steel Toe Books), sees release this week. Written over the course of Qi’s graduate study in
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Singapore Unbound interview
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Poetry Foundation / Harriet Books (review)
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