Jennifer Richter’s new poetry collection, No Acute Distress, was named a Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Editor’s Selection, and her first book, Threshold, was chosen by Natasha Trethewey for the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry and by Robert Pinsky as an Oregon Book Award Finalist. Jennifer has been awarded an Oregon Literary Fellowship, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, and a Jones Lectureship in Poetry by Stanford University, where she taught in the Creative Writing Program for four years. She currently teaches in Oregon State University’s MFA Program.