Jennifer Phelps, MFA

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Jennifer Phelps works as a professional editor, poet, proofreader, and versatile writer in the Denver area. 

She has worked as a full-time editor for over 15 years and enjoys collaborating with a variety of MA/PhD students as well as authors of essays, short stories, poetry and full-length manuscripts. She also proofreads several magazines at New Hope Media in Boulder, Colorado.

A Colorado native, Jennifer holds a BA in English from Colorado College (class of '93) and taught in the Colorado Springs Public School system for eight years. She transitioned from writing letters of recommendation for her students to reading them in application files as an Assistant Director of Admission for her alma mater in 2001. 

Inspired by CC students, she left the Admission Office to pursue her Master of Fine Arts degree at Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School. She graduated in 2009 with an MFA in creative writing and poetics.  

In addition to her love of poetry and literature, Jennifer has studied Jungian psychology since her early twenties and has worked with her own dreams for nearly 30 years. Interested in the space where Jung's psychology and poetry intersect, she has lectured on her graduate thesis, "Mysticpoetics: writing the alchemical self," for Jungian societies along the front range.