Jane Hoogestraat

Jane Hoogestraat was educated at the University of Chicago and Baylor University. Since 1989, she had been an English professor at Missouri State University in Springfield. During her tenure there, she served six years as the Director of Graduate Studies for the English Department, and from 2007 until 2015 as the English Department's Literature Coordinator. Her first full-length poetry collection, Border States , was selected by Luis J. Rodriguez for the award of the John Ciardi Prize for...See more

Jane Hoogestraat was educated at the University of Chicago and Baylor University. Since 1989, she had been an English professor at Missouri State University in Springfield. During her tenure there, she served six years as the Director of Graduate Studies for the English Department, and from 2007 until 2015 as the English Department's Literature Coordinator. Her first full-length poetry collection, Border States , was selected by Luis J. Rodriguez for the award of the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry and published by BkMk Press. See less