J.L. Conrad

J.L. Conrad is the author of the full-length poetry collections A World in Which (Terrapin Books) and A Cartography of Birds (Louisiana State University Press), as well as the chapbooks Recovery, winner of the 2022 Robert Phillips Chapbook Prize (Texas Review Press), and Not If But When (Salt Hill). Her poems have appeared in Pleiades, Sugar House Review, Jellyfish, Beloit Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. Her chapbook This Natal House is forthcoming from Harbor Editions in 2025. Conrad earned an MFA in creative writing from American University and a PhD in English from UW–Madison. She currently lives in Madison.