Scappettone, Jennifer

Jennifer Scappettone was born and raised in New York, and has lived in Virginia, Nagoya, Umbria, and Northern California. A poet, translator, and purveyor as well of visual stills and prose, she is author of the chapbooks Beauty [Is the New Absurdity] (dusi/e kollectiv, 2007), Err-Residence (Bronze Skull, 2007), and Thing Ode / Ode oggettuale (La Camera Verde, 2008), and guest-editor of Aufgabe 7, featuring contemporary Italian poetry of research. She now works as an assistant professor at the University of Chicago.