Jane Satterfield

Jane Satterfield is a British-American poet, essayist, editor, and professor. She is the recipient of a 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in poetry.

Life Jane Satterfield was born in Northamptonshire, England and raised in the United States. She is the daughter of an American serviceman and an Irish-English mother. Her mother had grown up in Corby, where she also gave birth to Satterfield.

Satterfield earned a Bachelor of Arts in English and Creative Writing from Loyola College (now Loyola University Maryland) in 1986. The following year, she received a Master of Fine Arts at the University of Iowa.

In 1994 Satterfield moved to England for a year as a result of her first husband's participation in the Fulbright Program.

Satterfield became a tenured professor of writing at Loyola College in 2005.

Satterfield has served as Literary Editor for the Journal of Association for Research on Mothering since 2009.

Reception Satterfield has won a number of awards. In 2013 she received the 49th Parallel Award in Poetry from Bellingham Review. In 2011 she won the Mslexia Women's Poetry Competition for "The War Years".

Reviewer Deborah L. Humphreys praised Satterfield's Assignation at Vanishing Point for being "so carefully arranged, there occasionally appears to be a sort of enjambment between several poems. A link between senses..."

In reviewing Her Familiars Caitlin Doyle noted that "Satterfield's intense engagement with political and military matters marks a central difference between Her Familiars and her previous collections," adding, "She shines as a poet when drawing unique parallels across the centuries, placing surprising details in relation to each other so that her poems achieve a densely layered complexity."