About Rose

Rose Jenny is a trans poet/playwright based in Tennessee. She is the recipient of the 2025 Bennett Nieberg Transpoetic Broadside Prize from Gasher Press, selected by poet Michal ‘MJ’ Jones. Her poetry chapbook, My Apocrypha, is available through Bottlecap Press. Rose’s other selected poems are published/forthcoming in Foglifter Journal, SWWIM Every Day, Oroboro Literary Journal, South Florida Poetry Journal (SoFloPoJo), Stone Canoe, and elsewhere.

A 2026 Lambda Literary Fellow, her writing has received additional support from Tin House, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, The Barrow Group, the Free Nashville Poetry Library, among others.

As a playwright, she has written, directed, and/or devised work through Theatre Plastique at The Bushwick Starr, Shout Alone Theatre Company at the AITI Theater, Sacred Circle Theatre Company at The Alchemical, and the Midwinter Madness Short Play Festival at Roy Arias Studios.

Rose is currently the Drama Editor for Waxing & Waning and a poetry reader for April Gloaming Publishing.