Jane Mead

Her poems appeared in literary journals and magazines including Ploughshares, Electronic Poetry Review, The American Poetry Review, The New York Times, the Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Antioch Review and in anthologies including The Best American Poetry 1990. Jane Mead was born in Baltimore, Mead lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, until she was twelve. Her father taught ichthyology at Harvard University. After Cambridge, she moved around a great deal with her mother and stepfather, who was a journalist, living in New Mexico, London, and Cambridge, England. She graduated from Vassar College and from Syracuse University and the University of Iowa. She taught and was Poet-in-Residence at Wake Forest University. After her father died in 2003, Mead managed the family ranch in Napa County, Northern California. She taught at New England College and co-owned Prairie Lights in Iowa City, Iowa.

• Name — Jane Mead • Born — 13 August 1958 • Birthplace — Baltimore, Maryland • Died — 8 September 2019 • Place of death — Napa County, California • Occupation — Poet • Education — * Vassar College • Syracuse University • University of Iowa

• Collections * * * * * * • Anthologies (edited) * • Anthologised in * • List of poems • Title — |Year — |First published — |Reprinted/collected • I wonder if I will miss the moss — 2021