Tumor Moon by Jennifer Saunders has been selected as the winner of the 2024 Concrete Wolf Chapbook Award.

Judge’s Remarks: “The push of the poems move you through this very unified work, the elegant and surprising mix of medical/scientific language blended with ordinary images, the emotion in each one. Each poem builds a crescendo you feel with the poet. There are a variety of forms to fit the specific subject of each poem that startle with both bluntness and eloquence. Not usually a fan of medical/disease themed works, this one won me with its cool honesty and deftly articulated sentiment without sentimentality. You are with this woman and her son as she navigates their experience. And the conclusion is that there is no end point in this endeavor, only a resolve to move forward. Each time I read this, I loved it all over again!”
—Raphael Kosek, author of American Mythology

Jennifer Saunders is the author of Tumor Moon, winner of the Concrete Wolf Chapbook Contest, and Self-Portrait with Housewife, winner of the Clockwise Chapbook Competition (Tebot Bach, 2019). She is also the co-editor of Stained: an anthology of writing about menstruation (Querencia Press, 2023), a multi-genre anthology that breaks the silence surrounding the menstruating body. Jennifer’s poems and reviews can be found in Adroit, Chestnut Review, The Georgia Review, Literary Mama, Ninth Letter, Poet Lore, Salamander, San Pedro River Review , and elsewhere as well as in several anthologies and craft books including Masque Anthology and The Strategic Poet: Honing the Craft.

Jennifer’s poem “Crosswalk” was selected by Kim Addonizio as the winner of the 2020 Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Prize and appeared in Southword. Her poem “What If I Could Tell You Everything About Myself By Quoting Others?” earned an Honorable Mention in the Geneva Literary Prize judged by Sharon Mesmer. Jennifer is a multiple Pushcart, Best of the Net, and Orison Anthology nominee.

Born and raised in suburban Chicago, Jennifer now lives in German-speaking Switzerland with her husband and two children. A lifelong hockey enthusiast, she has taught skating in a hockey school in Bern, Switzerland, for over ten years and continues to drive her hockeyplaying son to many, many ice rinks. She has seen some glorious moonrises and moonsets along the way.