Jane Mead
Jane Mead (August 13, 1958 – September 8, 2019) was an American poet, author of five poetry collections. Her last volume was To the Wren: Collected & New Poems 1991-2019 (Alice James Books, 2019). Her honors included fellowships from the Lannan and Guggenheim Foundations, and a Whiting Award. Her poems appeared in literary journals and magazines including Ploughshares, Electronic Poetry Review, The American Poetry Review, The New York Times, The Virginia Quarterly, The Antioch Review, and in anthologies including The Best American Poetry 1990. 

Born in Baltimore, Mead lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, until she was twelve. Her father taught ichthyology at Harvard University.  After Cambridge, she moved around a great deal with her mother and stepfather, who was a journalist, living in New Mexico, London, and Cambridge, England. She graduated from Vassar College and from Syracuse University and the University of Iowa. She taught and was Poet-in-Residence at Wake Forest University. 

After her father died in 2003, Mead managed the family ranch in Napa County, Northern California.  She taught at New England College and co-owned Prairie Lights in Iowa City, Iowa.

Mead died September 8, 2019, in Napa, from cancer.

Honors and awards
 2017 World of Made and Unmade shortlisted for 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize
 2004 Ploughshares Cohen Award
 2002 Guggenheim Fellowship
 1992 Whiting Award
 Lannan Foundation Completion Grant

Published works
Full-Length Poetry Collections

 
 

Anthologies Edited

In Anthology