Selected by Jean Valentine as the winner of the 2008 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize.

Jennifer Kronovet's debut poetry collection, Awayward, was selected by Jean Valentine as winner of the seventh annual A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. She is the co-founder and co-editor of CIRCUMFERENCE, the journal of poetry in translation. Kronovet received an MFA in Poetry from Washington University and an MA in Applied Linguistics from Columbia University Teachers College. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Colorado Review, Pleiades, Ploughshares, A Public Space, and other journals. She has lived in Beijing, Chicago, and St. Louis, and currently lives in New York City, where she was born and raised.