About
Jena Martin is a writer and a pathologist. She finds and describes the beauty in the grotesque, a perspective that is helpful in both fields.
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Jena currently lives in the Minneapolis area with her family. If she isn’t behind her computer or her microscope, she’s likely cooking, making collage art or strength training.
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She is represented by Rachel Ekstrom Courage of Courage Literary.
Selected Awards and Publications
Workshops:
Hugo House Book Lab 2021-2022
Kenyon Writers Workshop, Summer 2023
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Essays:
The Poetry Report from Pathology. Write or Die Literary Magazine, April 2023
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The Secrets of Hair Loss. The Bellevue Literary Review, Issue 41
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Honest Affirmations for Skeptical Realists. Salon, 2018
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Facing Uncertainty in Pathology Training, Doximity 2019
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Don't Underestimate the Pannus, Doximity 2018
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Poems:
The Intima, Spring 2023
https://www.theintima.org/haematein-after-john-ashberys-some-trees-jena-martin
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