Jenna Jarvis is the 2012 recipient of the John Newlove Poetry Award. She's a Master's student in English literature at Carleton University, and a former co-editor of In/Words Magazine. Her poetry has most recently been published by S/tick, Conduit Canada, and The Puritan. Her chapbook, The Tiger with the Crooked Mouth, will be launched at the Ottawa International Writers Festival during the John Newlove Poetry Award.