Jennifer Grotz is the author of three books of poetry, most recently, Window Left Open. She's also the translator from the French of Patrice de La Tour du Pin's Psalms Of All My Days and Hubert Haddad's novel, Rochester Knockings. She is director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conferences and teaches at the University of Rochester.
At MacDowell she worked on poems for her fourth collection of poetry. She was a current Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, her poems from the manuscript-in-progress had recently appeared In The New Yorker and the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day project.