Jeanette Clough’s second collection of poetry, Cantatas, appeared in 2002 from Tebot Bach Press. Her first full-length collection, Celestial Burn, received two Pushcart Prize nominations. The Inevitable Press printed her chapbook, Dividing Paradise, as part of its Laguna Poets Series. She currently is an assistant editor for Solo: A Journal of Poetry.

Her poetry appears in the Denver Quarterly, Nimrod, Ohio Review, Atlanta Review, and Poetrybay, and in the 1994 and 1996 anthologies published by the Robinson Jeffers Room Poetry Series. She was runner-up in the Los Angeles Poetry Festival’s Fin de Millenium competition and Spillway’s Walt Whitman Call and Response contest.

Clough teaches poetry workshops at Joshua Tree National Park in co-operation with Park Stewardship through the Arts and the UC/Riverside Desert Institute, and also for Pasadena City Parks and Recreation. She currently curates and co-hosts the monthly Poem.X series in Santa Monica.

She has been a featured poet at many California festivals and venues, including the Long Beach, San Luis Obispo, and San Gabriel Valley poetry festivals; Barnsdall Art Park, Pasadena Central Library, and Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center.

Clough was born in Paterson, New Jersey. She received a Masters degree from the University of Chicago and currently works for the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles.

Of her work, Victor D. Infante says, “Her writing is delicate, almost brittle, yet it burns with a power that can only be achieved by one who is speaking the truth.” (OC Weekly, March 20-26, 1998, p66). In his introduction to Cantatas, David St. John states, “This is a songbook that maps our hopes and dreams, our accomplishments and out defeats. It is a collection of maturity, beauty, and lasting power.”