The 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

Jendi Reiter (they/he) is the author of the novels Origin Story (Saddle Road Press, 2024) and Two Natures (Saddle Road Press, 2016), the short story collection An Incomplete List of My Wishes (Sunshot Press, 2018), and five poetry books and chapbooks, most recently Made Man (Little Red Tree, 2022) and Bullies in Love (Little Red Tree, 2015). Their awards include two Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship for Poetry, the New Letters Prize for Fiction, the Oscar Wilde Poetry Prize from Gival Press, the Saints & Sinners Literary Festival Prize for Poetry, the Wag's Revue Poetry Prize, the Bayou Magazine Editor's Prize in Fiction, and two awards from the Poetry Society of America. Two Natures won the Rainbow Award for Best Gay Contemporary Fiction and was a finalist for the Book Excellence Awards and the Lascaux Prize for Fiction. Origin Story was a finalist for the Black Lawrence Press Big Moose Prize and is currently a finalist for the Foreword INDIES Award for LGBTQ Fiction. They are the editor of WinningWriters.com, an online resource site with contests and markets for creative writers.