About me
Jen Siraganian is an Armenian-American writer and former Poet Laureate of Los Gatos, California. Her debut collection, Everything Has Been Moved, Even the Dead, which won the 2026 Perugia Press Prize, was a finalist for the Tupelo Press Dorset Prize and The Journal’s Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize, and a semi-finalist for the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize, Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, and Vassar Miller Prize. Her poems have won the New Ohio Review Poetry Prize, The Writing Salon’s Jane Underwood Poetry Prize, and appeared in AGNI, Best New Poets 2016 and 2025, Cincinnati Review, Electric Literature, Poetry Daily, Prairie Schooner, and The Rumpus. A former managing director of Litquake, she has received funding from the Money for Women / Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Community of Writers, Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, and Alliance for Young Artists. Currently, she is a Lucas Artist Fellow at the Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, CA.
