Jeannine Hall Gailey is an American poet. She has published five books of poetry. Her work focuses on pop culture, science and science fiction, fairy tales, and mythology.
Biography
She earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Cincinnati, master's degree from the University of Cincinnati, and MFA from Pacific University. In 2012, Gailey was appointed to the position of Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington. She was also selected as a member of the 2013 Jack Straw Writers Program. She previously taught at National University and was on the core faculty of the CentrumYoung Artists Project in Port Townsend, Washington. Gailey has published five books of poetry: Field Guide to the End of the World, The Robot Scientist's Daughter, Unexplained Fevers, She Returns to the Floating World, and Becoming the Villainess. Her work addresses feminist issues of power in mythology and comic book cultures, turning fairy tale stepmothers into empathetic characters, and holding up a mirror to contemporary American culture's images of powerful women. Gailey's second full-length book of poetry, She Returns to the Floating World, deals with feminine transformations in the personae of characters from Japanese folk tales, anime, and manga. The Robot Scientist's Daughter deals more with ecological issues, with a specific focus on the potential dangers of the nuclear industry, set against the backdrop of growing up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Her most recent book, Field Guide to the End of the World, "delivers a whimsical look at our culture’s obsession with apocalypse as well as a thoughtful reflection on our resources in the face of disasters both large and small, personal and public."
Honors
Field Guide to the End of the World won the 2017 Elgin Award from the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association.
Field Guide to the End of the World won the 2015 Moon City Poetry Award.
Unexplained Fevers won second place in the 2014 Elgin Awards for full-length poetry books published in 2013; presented by the Science Fiction Poetry Association.
"Introduction to the Body in Fairy Tales" was featured in anthology.
Selected by Ellen Bass as a runner-up in the first biennial Phyllis L. Ennes Poetry Contest with an appearance at the Skagit River Poetry Festival.
Selected as a member of the 2013 Jack Straw Writers Program.
Appointed as the second Poet Laureate for the city of Redmond, Washington in 2012.
Awarded a top prize from the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Memorial Fund for "A Morning of Sunflowers "
She Returns to the Floating World won a silver medal in the Florida Publisher's Association 2011 President's Book Award for Poetry
Awarded the top prize from the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Memorial Fund
Awarded a State Artist Trust GAP Grant
Two poems from her first full-length book, Becoming the Villainess, appeared in Year's Best Fantasy and Horror.
