Janine Certo

Biography

Janine Certo is a poet and associate professor in the Department of Teacher Education with interests in contemporary poetry, creative writing pedagogy, poetic inquiry, the poetics of food, and supporting K-12 educators to encourage children's and adolescents' poetry writing in culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms. She is the author of three books, two full-length poetry collections: Elixir, winner of both the 2020 New American Poetry Prize and the 2020 Lauria/Frasca Poetry Prize (for