Jennifer Martelli
Jennifer Martelli (1962-2025) authored four chapbooks and four full-length poetry collections including Psychic Party Under the Bottle Tree (2025, Lily Poetry Review Books) which was longlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award and The Queen of Queens (Bordighera Press) which won the Italian American Studies Association Book Award and was shortlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award. Her work has been published in The Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day, Poetry, Best of the Net Anthology, Braving the Body Anthology, Verse Daily, Plume, The Tahoma Literary Review, and elsewhere. She received fellowships from The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Monson Arts, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. She served as the poetry co-editor of MER.
