Envoy: Number 53

by Jennifer O'Grady

Staple Bound

Published January 1, 1990

About the author

Jennifer O’Grady is an award-winning poet and playwright. She is the author of the poetry collections WHITE (Mid-List Press First Series Award for Poetry) and EXCLUSIONS & LIMITATIONS (Plume Editions/MatHat Press, 2018). Her poems have appeared in numerous places including Harper’s, The New Republic, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The Writer’s Almanac, Poetry Daily, The Yale Review and American Poetry: The Next Generation, to name a few. Her plays have won the Henley Rose Award, the NEWvember Festival Dublin and MTWorks NEWborn Festival awards and Heartland Theatre's 10-Minute Play Contest and are published in The Best Ten-Minute Plays, The Best Women's Stage Monologues, and Best Contemporary Monologues for Women anthologies. Born and raised in New York City, she holds a BA from Vassar, where she won awards for her writing, and an MFA from Columbia University. She lives near New York City with her husband, son, and daughter, two dogs, two cats, and a rabbit.