Jerry Wemple

Jerry Wemple published four poetry collections. His most recent, We Always Wondered What Became of You from Broadstone Books, is a collection of mostly prose poems is about his adoption from a coal town orphanage and being raised as a biracial child in small town Central PA. He also co-edited, with Marjorie Maddox, Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania, an anthology from Penn State Press. A follow-up poetry anthology, Keystone Poets, is forthcoming, also from PSU Press. Wemple’s poetry and essays appear in numerous journals and anthologies, including internationally in Ireland, Sweden, and Chile. Among his honors are the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award, a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship in Literature, the Word Journal Chapbook Prize, a Vermont Studio Center Fellowship, and the Jack and Helen Evans Endowed Faculty Fellowship. He teaches in the Creative Writing program at Commonwealth University - Bloomsburg.