Jean Prokott is a recipient of the AWP Intro Journals Award, League of Minnesota Poets Grand Prize, and two National Endowment for the Humanities scholarships. Her poetry and creative nonfiction have been published in Arts & Letters, Rattle, RHINO, and Laurel Review, among other journals. She is a graduate of Minnesota State University Mankato's MFA program, holds a Master of Science in Education from Winona State, and lives in Rochester, Minnesota.