Jana-Lee Germaine

Jana-Lee Germaine is the recipient of the 2025 St. Botolph Club Foundation Don Kissel Emerging Artist Award for Literature and the 2022 Patricia Dobler Poetry Award. Her poems have appeared in Nelle, MER, Water~Stone Review, Poet Lore, On the Seawall, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, New Ohio Review, Nimrod, Cimarron Review, EcoTheo Review, Presence, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, december, The Baltimore Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, and elsewhere. She has been a Poetry Reader for Ploughshares since 2009 and a Senior Poetry Reader since 2019. She is Social Media Marketing Manager for Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry. She earned her MFA from Emerson College and her BA from Wheaton College, IL.

Jana-Lee homeschools her children, two of whom are now in college and two of whom are still in high school.  Originally from Hopkinton, Massachusetts, she has lived in Chicago, Tucson, and Los Angeles. More recently, she and her family spent several years in a tiny village in the midlands of England where the local peacock showed up at their door every morning to ask for biscuits, preferably the chocolate-covered variety.  She currently lives in Lunenburg, Massachusetts with her husband, kids, and four rescue cats.