Jane Satterfield is the author of three books of poems: Her Familiars (Elixir Press, 2013), Assignation at Vanishing Point (Elixir Press, 2003), which received an Elixir Press Third Annual Poetry Award, and Shepherdess with an Automatic (Washington Writers Publishing House, 2000), which received a Towson University Prize for Literature. She has also written the autobiographical Daughters of Empire: A Memoir of a Year in Britain and Beyond (Demeter Press, 2009). She is the recipient of a 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in poetry and three Maryland State Arts Council grants, as well as the William Faulkner Society’s Gold Medal for the essay and first prize in the 2011 Mslexia women’s poetry competition. Satterfield is literary editor for the Journal of the Motherhood Initiative and teaches at Loyola University Maryland.  

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