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Jennifer MacKenzie
Jennifer MacKenzie is a writer, poet and journalist who has been a Lecturer in Lehman’s departments of Journalism and Media Studies and English since 2014. She is the Faculty Advisor to The Meridian, the student-run newspaper of Lehman College. Her full-length book of poems, My Not-My Soldier, was published as part of Fence Books Modern Poets Series. She has published poems widely, most recently in Image, Prelude, jubilat, and Conduit. Her literary journalism and reviews have appeared in outlets including the Kenyon Review Online, HuffPost, Religion and Politics, Guernica, Hyperallergic, and Killing the Buddha, as cited by Longform. Her work is rooted in care webs and cultures of resistance as they intersect with neoliberal wars, necropolitics, and intergenerational trauma. Her teaching incorporates multimodal approaches to writing and communication, including podcasting, oral history, globally networked learning environments, and local archival research. She loves Arabic and Spanish as well as English.