Jeanne is a retired tax accountant. She was born in San Francisco and grew up in Sacramento. She graduated from University of California, Berkeley with a degree in German and has a M. A. in Humanities from San Francisco State University.
She lives with her husband, Bill, dog Gretchen (the inspiration for “Dogs That Look Like Wolves”) and two cats. She likes to travel, read mysteries, play backgammon and watch foreign mysteries and classic films.
Jeanne is the author of four chapbooks and three full-length collections: The Zen Piano Mover from NFSPS Press, 2004 winner of the Stevens Manuscript Award; In the Body of Our Lives, released by Sixteen Rivers Press 2010 and Everything Turns Into Something Else, runner-up for the Grayson Books Prize, published by Grayson Books in 2020. Her work has appeared in Alaska Review, Cincinnati Review, North American Review, River Styx, Southern Review, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily and Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry.
She lives with her husband, Bill, dog Gretchen (the inspiration for “Dogs That Look Like Wolves”) and two cats. She likes to travel, read mysteries, play backgammon and watch foreign mysteries and classic films.
Jeanne is the author of four chapbooks and three full-length collections: The Zen Piano Mover from NFSPS Press, 2004 winner of the Stevens Manuscript Award; In the Body of Our Lives, released by Sixteen Rivers Press 2010 and Everything Turns Into Something Else, runner-up for the Grayson Books Prize, published by Grayson Books in 2020. Her work has appeared in Alaska Review, Cincinnati Review, North American Review, River Styx, Southern Review, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily and Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry.
Awards
Joy Harjo Prize, Cutthroat Review
- NFSPS Founders’ Award
- Naugatuck River Review Award
- NFSPS Stevens Manuscript Prize
- MacGuffin Poet Hunt
- Ann Stanford Prize
- Briar Cliff Review Prize
- All Nations Chapbook Prize
- Connecticut River Review Prize
- Saranac Review Prize
- Thomas Merton Poetry of the Sacred
- Inkwell Magazine Prize
- Smartish Pace Beullah Rose Poetry Prize
- Sow’s Ear Poetry Prize
- Hayden’s Ferry 500 Prize
- Arts & Letters Prize
- Sow’s Ear Chapbook Prize
Reviews and Interviews
January 2021
The Widening Spell
Terry Lucas reviews Everything Turns Into Something Else
http://thewideningspell.blogspot.com/2020/12/jeanne-wagner-everything-turns-into.html.
May 2020
The Sundress Blog
Sundress Reads: Review of Everything Turns Into Something Else
Jan 2015
Hayden’s Ferry
Interview with Jeanne Wagner: Flash-Prose Contest Winner
April 2013
Amoskeag Journal
Author Spotlight