Jane Satterfield

Cuchulain Fellowship in Rhetoric for the Essay, Heekin Foundation, 1998. A British-American poet, essayist, editor, and professor. She is the recipient of a 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in poetry.

• Name — Jane Satterfield • Born — 15 July 1964 • Occupation — poet, essayist, editor and professor • Education — University of Iowa '87, M.F.A. • Genre — poetry, essay • Spouse — Ned Balbo • Children — Catherine • Awards — Ledbury Poetry Festival Competition, 2015. 49th Parallel Award for Poetry, Bellingham Review, 2013. Mslexia Women's Poetry Competition, 2011. National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 2007.

Jane Satterfield was born in Northamptonshire, England and raised in the United States. She is the daughter of an American serviceman and an Irish-English mother. Her mother had grown up in Corby, where she also gave birth to Satterfield. Satterfield earned a Bachelor of Arts in English and Creative Writing from Loyola College (now Loyola University Maryland) in 1986. The following year, she received a Master of Fine Arts at the University of Iowa. In 1994 Satterfield moved to England for a year as a result of her first husband's participation in the Fulbright Program. At this time she became pregnant with her daughter Catherine who was also born in England. Satterfield and Catherine's father eventually divorced. Until 2006, Satterfield raised her daughter largely as a single mother. Satterfield writes about this period in her life in Daughters of Empire: A Memoir of a Year in Britain and Beyond. Satterfield became a tenured professor of writing at Loyola College in 2005. She currently lives in Baltimore, Maryland. Her husband is poet Ned Balbo. Satterfield has served as Literary Editor for the Journal of Association for Research on Mothering since 2009.

• 1998 — “The Disquieting Muses: Contemporary Poetry and Motherhood.” (The American Voice 45: 33–42) • 1999 — "Another Country." (The Massachusetts Review 40.2: 56–62) • 2000 — "Motherland." (Crab Orchard Review 6.1: 197–207; winner, John Guyon Award in Literary Nonfiction) • 2001 — "Double Exposure." (Pennsylvania English 23.1/2: 144–154) • 2002 — "Doors into Dark: Memory as Spectral Text." (Die Cast Garden Paraphysics Issue) • 2003 — "The Crooked Track." (Die Cast Garden Groundfounds Issue) • 2004 — "Assignations at Vanishing Point." (Seneca Review 34.1: 56–62) • 2004 — "Daughters of Empire." (The Litchfield Review 1.2: 100–06) • 2005 — "Knowhere, UK." (Florida Review 30.2 39–45; awarded 2005 Editors’ Prize in Nonfiction) • 2006 — "A Return." (Elixir 6) • 2010 — “Lucifer Matches: Epistles and Other Conversations.” (Mentor and Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets, Carbondale, IL: Southern Indiana University Press: 188–196) • 2013 — "A Place at the Table." (Baltimore Fishbowl 25 Sep 2013) • 2016 — "Mother Tongue." (Superstition Review 17) • 2016 — "Rescue." (Animal: a beast of a literary magazine 1 Sep 2016) • 2018 — "Herd." (Hotel Amerika 16) • 2018 — "The Scream." (Diagram 18.4)