Kinetic Prose: About

Kinetic Prose is dedicated to the exploration of books, poetry, book arts and other forms of expression.

Jenny O'Grady likes to keep her poems to herself so she can make them into little book sculptures. Currently, she's working on a trio of doll-like books containing poems inspired by her favorite novel, The Tin Drum. By day she is director of alumni and development communications at UMBC and associate editor of UMBC Magazine; in the evening, she teaches book arts and electronic publishing as an adjunct professor in the University of Baltimore's Creative Writing and Publishing Arts MFA program, where she earned her MFA in 2006. Before UMBC, she worked at a culinary school, and before that as a newspaper reporter.

Jenny is editor of The Light Ekphrastic, an online literary journal that pairs writers with visual artists to inspire new work.

Jenny was one of five Baltimore writers featured in the 2009 "Emerging Artists" issue of Urbanite magazine. Her poetry has also been published in the Little Patuxent Review, and online in Everyday Genius and Splotches: Visual Pulse. She contributed a page spread to And, Afterward, a collaborative book arts/poetry project. Her book, "Autobiography," was included in the 2009 Bind-O-Rama on Philobiblon.com, the Book Arts Web.

She and her husband also run Community Alchemy, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to fighting the causes and consequences of child poverty in the Baltimore/Washington, D.C. area.