About Rose

ROSE JENNY (she/her) is a trans writer based in Tennessee. Her poetry chapbook, My Apocrypha, is available through Bottlecap Press. She is the recipient of the 2025 Bennett Nieberg Transpoetic Broadside Prize from Gasher Press. Rose’s other selected poems are published/forthcoming in Foglifter Journal, SWWIM Every Day, Oroboro, South Florida Poetry Journal (SoFloPoJo), Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly, Pensive Journal, new words {press}, Waxing & Waning, Pile Press, and The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature.

As a playwright, she has written, directed, and/or devised work through Marymount Manhattan College, 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 in New York City.

Her writing has received additional support from Tin House, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, The Barrow Group, and the Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop. Rose earned her MFA in Creative Writing from University of Miami, where she was a Michener Fellow and poetry editor for sinking city.

Currently, Rose is an instructor at The Porch, a librarian for the Free Nashville Poetry Library (FNPL), a reader for April Gloaming Publishing, and an English tutor at Nashville State Community College.