Jana-Lee Germaine

Jana-Lee Germaine is a Senior Poetry Reader for Ploughshares. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Water~Stone Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Chestnut Review, Tinderbox, New Ohio Review, Nimrod, Cimarron Review, EcoTheo Review, Bellevue Literary Review, and elsewhere. She is a recipient of the Patricia Dobler Poetry Award and is the Social Media Marketing Manager for Presence. She earned an MFA from Emerson College. A survivor of domestic violence, she lives with her husband, four children, and four rescue cats in semi-rural Massachusetts. She is a member of the Board of Trustees for her local public library, and she can be found online at janaleegermaine.com.