Jen Siraganian

Jen Siraganian is an Armenian-American writer, educator, and former Poet Laureate of Los Gatos, California. Her debut book, Everything Has Been Moved, Even the Dead, which won the 2026 Perugia Press Prize and will be released in September 2026, was a finalist for the Tupelo Press Dorset Prize and The Journal’s Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize, as well as a semi-finalist for Persea Books’ Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize, Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, and Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry. Her poems have won the New Ohio Review Poetry Prize and have appeared in AGNI, Best New Poets 2015 and 2025, Cincinnati Review, Electric Literature, Poetry Daily, Prairie Schooner, and The Rumpus. A former managing director of Litquake: San Francisco’s Literary Festival, she has received funding from the Money for Women / Barbara Deming Memorial Fund and is a current Lucas Artist Fellow at the Montalvo Arts Center. 

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• Lucas Artists Program 20th Anniversary