BA Human Development  Fundamentals: Issues & Texts  University of Chicago (2005)  MFA Creative Writing-Poetry  Louisiana State University (2010) Born in Bogotá  Jennif(f)er is Nancy’s daughter She is a queer  latinx writer and performer whose research attends to (the performativity of) contemporary poetry readings  asking the questions: what knowledges does the voice hold that are distinct from language  if a body is a site of ancestral knowledges  how do the violent legacies of slavery and settler colonialism haunt contemporary poetry “readings”? A former CantoMundo Fellow and Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics Emerge Fellow  Jenni(f)fer’s books include [Red Missed Aches] (Switchback  2011)  Poems are the Only Real Bodies (Bloof Books 2013) and YOU DA ONE (2014/15 reprint Noemi Books & Letras Latinas) and her writing has been published in Poetry magazine  Best American Experimental Poetry  Mandorla: Writing from the Americas  and Angels of the Americlypse  An Anthology of New Latin@ Writing