Jolene Brink holds a B.A. from the College of St. Benedict/St. John’s University and an M.F.A. from The University of Montana, where her poetry chapbook Peregrine (Red Bird Chapbooks), won the Merriam-Frontier Award.
She writes about place, landscapes, home and memory.
Her forthcoming poetry collection, Overburden, won the 2025 Walt McDonald First Book Award from Texas Tech University Press. Her essays and poetry have appeared in Orion, The New England Review, Poetry Northwest, The Carolina Quarterly, Southern Humanities Review, Post Road, and more.
She worked for the University of Minnesota and lives with her family a few steps from the St. Croix River in Stillwater, MN.
Follow her current writing and 2026 book tour on Substack.
