Jeanne Wagner is an award-winning poet. 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. Jeanne is a retired tax accountant. She lives in Kensington, CA with her husband, Bill, a dog and a cat. She likes to travel, read mysteries, play backgammon and watch foreign mysteries and classic films.
Jeanne is the author of four chapbooks and four full-length collections, the latest of which is One Needful Song, winner of the 2024 Catamaran Book Prize. Other books are Everything Turns Into Something Else, runner-up for the Grayson Books Prize (2020), In the Body of Our Lives, released by Sixteen Rivers Press (2010), and The Zen Piano Mover from NFSPS Press, 2004 winner of the Stevens Manuscript Award. 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.
Jeanne is the author of four chapbooks and four full-length collections, the latest of which is One Needful Song, winner of the 2024 Catamaran Book Prize. Other books are Everything Turns Into Something Else, runner-up for the Grayson Books Prize (2020), In the Body of Our Lives, released by Sixteen Rivers Press (2010), and The Zen Piano Mover from NFSPS Press, 2004 winner of the Stevens Manuscript Award. 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
- California Quarterly Annual Contest
- Cloudbank Prize
- Catamaran Book Prize 2024
- Grayson Book Prize 2020
- 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