Jenifer DeBellis

Teaching writer Jenifer DeBellis is author of Blood Sisters (Main Street Rag, 2018) and founding director of aRIFT Warrior Project. Her second book, Warrior Sister, Cut Yourself Free from Your Assault, is due for release this fall.In addition to publishing and promoting her poetry and prose, she edits Pink Panther Magazine—an international women’s art and literature journal—and directs the Detroit Writers’ Guild. When she's not editing or writing for others, she sneaks in time for her own craft, which was nominated for a 2018 Pushcart Prize and appears in AWP's Festival Writer, Calyx, the Good Men Project, Literary Orphans, Sliver of Stone, Solstice, and other fine journals. JDB holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Solstice of Pine Manor College. A former writer-in-residence for the Meadow Brook Writing Project, she facilitates workshops for Oakland University’s MBWP Writing Camps, as well as teaches writing and literature for Saginaw Valley State University and Macomb Community College.