Genine Lentine is a poet, teacher, gardener, and interdisciplinary artist. She is the author of Archaeopteryx (Artifact, 2016), Poses: An Essay Drawn from the Model (Kelly’s Cove Press, 2012 , chapbook: g.e. collective, 2010), Mr. Worthington’s Beautiful Experiments on Splashes (New Michigan Press, 2010) and, and co-author with Stanley Kunitz of The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden (W.W. Norton, 2005). She received an MS in Theoretical Linguistics from Georgetown University and an MFA in Poetry from New York University.
She has received grants and fellowships from Southern Exposure Gallery, Montalvo Arts Center, Headlands Center for the Arts, University of Arizona Poetry Center, and Hedgebrook, and the Boomerang Foundation. As Artist-in-Residence at San Francisco Zen Center (2009-10), she curated The Expert’s Mind: Ten Interdisciplinary Talks, and Nothing is Hidden, a series of readings, screenings and artist talks. She taught Writing and Contemporary Practice at The San Francisco Art Institute and stewarded an interdisciplinary garden space known as The Meadow. She works 1:1 with writers and artists and teaches ongoing workshops.
