Indelible Ink

Jennifer Gurney is a Colorado-based poet and painter who also teaches and hikes. She's published 16 books and nearly 3,500 poems internationally, with work recognized in two international contests and featured in varied formats-a choral performance, a D.C. yard sign, Australian theater screens, the Rx Poetry project, and a bus sign in Racine, Wisconsin. Her manuscript We Are Never Ready: A Collection of Grief Poems earned Honorable Mention for the 2025 Concrete Wolf Louis Award, and Curvature of Life was a semi-finalist for The Word Works' 2025 Tenth Gate Prize.As a painter, she creates vibrant, experimental abstract acrylics that have appeared in magazines, anthologies, and local exhibitions, and that provide the cover art for all 14 of her poetry books. She was GloMag's 2024 Artist of the Month.For Jennifer, both writing and painting are about play and flow-finding the creative space where her inner life becomes words and images, and life feels most alive.