About Jennifer Tubbs

Writer image: Woman in a black dress standing in front of a blooming tree

Jennifer Tubbs is a writer and PhD candidate whose work focuses on the nexus between womanhood and the environment. She has taught English internationally in Hyderabad, India and Santiago, Chile. Jennifer holds an MFA from The University of New Mexico and a BS from Georgetown University. Her work can be found in Palette Poetry, CutBank, and elsewhere. Her fiction won first place in CutBank's All Accounts and Mixture Contest, and her nonfiction won the 31st annual Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest. She is currently crafting a genre-bending book that grapples with generational trauma, gendered violence, and language eradication as a result of colonization.

Jennifer is a Fulbright scholar in Ireland, where she is conducting archival research for her manuscript at the National Folklore Collection, housed at University College Dublin, as well as ethnographic interviews with contemporary folklore practitioners and herbalists. Jennifer loves to connect with others about all things botanical. When she isn't writing, researching, or teaching, Jennifer can be found wandering in the woods, running along the shore, and practicing yoga at her favorite local studio.