Born in England to an American airman and British mother, Jane Satterfield is the author of seven books, most recently Luminous Crown (The Word Works, 2026) selected for the Tenth Gate Prize by Oliver de la Paz and The Badass Brontës (Diode Editions Book Prize). Her previous books include Apocalypse Mix (Autumn House Poetry Prize selected by David St. John), Her Familiars (Elixir Press), Assignation at Vanishing Point (Elixir Press Poetry Award), and Shepherdess with an Automatic (WWPH/Towson University Prize).

Daughters of Empire:  A Memoir of a Year in Britain and Beyond featured selections that received Florida Review’s Editors’ Prize, the Faulkner Society/Pirate’s Alley Essay Award, and the John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize. The book explores maternal legacies through interconnected essays on music, popular culture, literary mothers, and personal history. With Laurie Kruk, she co-edited the multi-genre anthology Borderlands and Crossroads: Writing the Motherland.

Satterfield has received a National Endowment for the Arts poetry fellowship, the 49th Parallel Poetry Prize from Bellingham Review, the Ledbury Festival Poetry Prize, the Mslexia women’s poetry prize, and more. She has been a Walter E. Dakin fellow at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and received residency fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

Satterfield’s poetry and prose have appeared in American Poetry Review, Antioch Review, The Common, Diagram, Ecotone, Hopkins Review, North American Review, Notre Dame Review, Orion, Pleiades, Shenandoah, swamp pink, and elsewhere, as well as on Poetry Daily. Her work is featured in Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology (Trinity U. Press), Greening the Earth: A Global Poetry Anthology (Vintage), Good Eats: 32 Writers on Eating Ethically (NYU Press), and Magpie on the Gallows: Poems on the Art of Bosch and Bruegel (Carbonation Press).

Satterfield has served on the faculty of the Frost Farm and West Chester University Poetry Conferences and was the 2019 Poet-in-Residence for Salisbury, Maryland’s Poetry Week festivities. She is a Professor in the Writing Department at Loyola University Maryland and lives in Baltimore with her partner, poet Ned Balbo.