Awards

I’ve been honored to receive support for my writing and translating through the organizations listed below.

Attention

“Forgiveness Is a Plague,” interview with 작가TV in Seoul, April 29, 2023.

“‘Seattle City of Literature’ Sends Two Local Writers to Korea for Residency Programs,” South Seattle Emerald, October 1, 2021.

Toji Residency News: Jeanine Walker selected as UNESCO City of Literature ambassador, August 26, 2021.

“For Jeanine Walker, Everything Points Back to Poetry,” The Seattle Review of Books, May 1, 2018.

Jeanine Walker being interviewed
“Above all else, she’s a poet. And she’s not one of those stare-out-a-window-and-write-one-line-per-month kind of poets. No, Jeanine Walker writes. A lot. Every day.”
— Paul Constant of The Seattle Review of Books

Published Works

  • “Translation [We are stuck for a moment],” poem. Copper Nickel, forthcoming, 2026.

    “They Hear Him,” poem. Abstract Magazine, forthcoming, 2026.

    “Gyeongju,” poem. Poetry Northwest, forthcoming.

    “Translation [We are stuck on sand],” poem. Poetry Northwest, forthcoming.

    “Translation [The meaning is baffling, even],” poem. Poetry Northwest, forthcoming.

    “The Inviting Night,” poem. Poetry Northwest, forthcoming.

    “On Reading Emily Wilson’s Homer,” poem. Cimarron Review, forthcoming.

    “Watching a Movie, and the Dumbness of Love,” poem. HAD, forthcoming, 2026.

    “Afternoon,” poem. Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, sonnet-only issue, February 2026.

    “Translation [Today we are concerned with burning],” poem. Grain, February 2026.

    “Translation [We’re not sure if it’s a cedar forest],” poem. Grain, February 2026.

    “The Talmud States,” prose poem. elsewhere, Winter 2026.

    “Birdie,” poem. New York Quarterly, 2026.

  • “Fall,” poem. Permafrost.

    “Spell,” poem. Little Patuxent Review.

    “Match,” poem. Watershed Review.

    “The Digital Age,” poem. Watershed Review.

    “Late Night Parking Lot,” poem. Watershed Review.

    “What Really,” poem. The Inflectionist Review.

    “Countryside,” poem. The Inflectionist Review.

    “Chestnut = Night,” poem. The Inflectionist Review.

    “Mrs. T’s,” poem. One Art.

    “A Question on a Standardized Test,” poem. The Lake.

    “Art Is a Lesson,” poem. The Lake.

  • “Wolf,” poem. The Interpreter’s House, 2024.

    “Gyeongui Line Forest,” poem. swamp pink, 2024.

    “Holy Mother,” poem. swamp pink, 2024.

    “The Old Me,” poem. swamp pink, 2024.

    “What Do You See in My Face?” poem. swamp pink, 2024.

    “It Faintly Lingers,” translation. Poetry, 2024.

    “Village,” translation. Poetry, 2024.

    “Hamburg,” translation. Poetry, 2024.

    “First Evening, on a Lake,” Winter Anthology (contest winner), 2024.

    “Heron,” poem. The Florida Review, 2024.

    “The Funeral,” poem. Denver Quarterly, 2024.

    “Hoops,” story. HAD, 2024.

  • “Spring Night,” translation. Poet Lore, 2023.

    “Poetry of Borges,” translation. Poet Lore, 2023.

    “Erasing Dreams,” translation. The Offing, 2023.

    “Ghastly Road,” translation. The Offing, 2023.

    “Barren,” poem. Moria, 2023.

    “Oh Dad,” poem. Moria, 2023.

    “An Eating Scene,” translation. Poetry Northwest, 2023.

    “We Mourn,” poem. Josephine Quarterly, 2023.

    “Take It,” poem. The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, 2023.

    “First Year,” poem. The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, 2023.

    “Criminal,” poem. Bennington Review, 2023.

    “Wedding,” poem. New South, 2023.

    “The Elderly,” poem. Orange Blossom Review, 2023.

    “On the Two,” poem. Valparaiso Review, 2023.

    “English Words,” poem. Silk Road, 2023.

  • “A Plea,” poem. The Shore, 2022.

    “Walking Home in a Drizzle During a Drought,” poem. Cirque, 2022.

    “To Hold a Cross,” poem. Cirque, 2022.

    The Two of Them Might Outlast Me, poetry collection. Groundhog Poetry Press.

  • “Diagram of Parts Proves Love Is,” poem. Sweet Lit, 2021.

    “Underfunded,” poem. Pangyrus, 2021.

    “Five Praying, Overheard,” poem. The Raven Review, 2021.

    “Snowflake, the Cat in a Drawer,” poem. One, 2021.

    “Dissolving into Screens,” poem. Eunoia Review, 2021.

    “Good Man,” poem. Eunoia Review, 2021.

    “How Long I Will Hold On, I Don’t Know” poem. Main Street Rag, 2021.

    “Now with Fire, Now with Ash,” poem. The Hollins Critic, 2021.

  • “Jesus and My Way of Seeing Him Go,” poem. New Ohio Review, 2020.

    “Incantation,” poem. The Summerset Review, 2020.

    “There Once Was a Woman Who Called Me Daughter,” poem. The Summerset Review, 2020.

    “Piano,” poem. The Summerset Review, 2020.

    “Having Sent an Old Picture, He Asks if I Remember Koh Phangan,” poem. Hawai’i Pacific Review, 2020.

    “I Live in a Yellow House,” poem. Natural Bridge, 2020.

    “End-Stop,” poem. What Rough Beast, 2020.

    “For You I Miss,” poem. Channel, 2020.

    “All of These Months,” poem. Blue Earth Review, 2020.

  • “Hurricane,” poem. Prairie Schooner, 2019.

    “The Embodiment of Ether,” poem. Prairie Schooner, 2019.

    “Dot,” poem. Hotel Amerika, 2019.

    “On Reality, Reading the Classics,” poem. Hotel Amerika, 2019.

  • “Forgiveness, He Says, Is a Plague,” poem. Third Coast, 2018.

    “Roger Joins In and We Are Pleased,” poem. Chattahoochee Review, 2018.

    “Gold Toe Socks,” poem. Chattahoochee Review, 2018.

    “Suicide,” poem. Chiron Review, 2018.

    “We Had Been a Way to Catch the Sunlight,” poem. Chiron Review, 2018.

    “Fog,” poem. Salamander, 2018.

    “Monster Engine,” poem. Construction, 2018.

    “Chasing the Storm,” poem. The Meadow, 2018.

    “Conversation,” poem. The Seattle Review of Books, April 2018.

    “At Night, Asleep,” poem. The Seattle Review of Books, April 2018.

    “First Confession,” poem. The Seattle Review of Books, April 2018.

    “As soon as the man says to the little girl, ‘I want to touch you,’” poem. The Seattle Review of Books, April 2018.

    “10.10.12,” poem. Hobart, March 9, 2018.

    “Where the Place of Kindness Lives,” essay. SAL/ON, February 3, 2018.

    “Suicide,” poem. Chiron Review, 2018.

    “Fog,” poem. Salamander, 2018.

  • “Now for Getting Out of Denial,” review. PageBoy Magazine, 2017.

    “The Great Bear,” poem. Pacifica Online, 2017.

    “Divorce,” poem. Pleiades, 2016.

    “House,” poem. The Seattle Review of Books, 2016.

    “A Family Meeting Was Called,” poem. Jack Straw Anthology, 2015.

    “Noises That Sound like Weeping,” poem. Jack Straw Anthology, 2015.

    “In Two Places at Once,” poem. Jack Straw Anthology, 2015.

    “In Response to the Killings in Gaza, or, Hashtag First World Problems,” poem. PageBoy Magazine, 2014.

    “I Missed,” poem. PageBoy Magazine, 2014.

    “Falling in Love,” poem. Narrative, 2013.

    “Recovery & Surrender,” poem. Narrative, 2013.

    “In Springtime Pollen Blows Across the Yellow Sea,” poem. Narrative, 2013.

    “I Become a Nest,” poem. The Far Field, 2013.

    “The Appointment and the Snow,” poem. Poetry Northwest Community, 2012.

    “A Door,” poem. Pontoon, 2010.

    “Wondering if I Should Have Said What I Said When I Said, 'I love you!',” poem. Cream City Review, 2009.

    “What Tenants Leave Behind Haunts Like an Insidious Ghost,” poem. Tusculum Review, 2009.

    “I Become a Nest,” poem. Tusculum Review, 2009.

    “A Door,” poem. Web Conjunctions, 2008.

    “The World Became Heat,” poem. Web Conjunctions, 2008.

    “I'm Not Worried and You Aren't Either,” poem. Web Conjunctions, 2008.

    “On the Eve of Your Deployment,” poem. Cimarron Review, 2008.

    “Getting to Know the Tulip,” comic strip. The Daily Cougar, 2004-2008.

    “From One to Another, Another to One,” poem. Lumina, 2006.

    “Expatriate in Love,” review. Gulf Coast, 2005.

    “Wives and Bees,” poem. Potato Eyes, 1998.

“If you’re ever introducing me at a party, introduce me as a poet.”
— Jeanine Walker