Arts

Books

“The Witch’s Mouth,” a poetry chapbook that was the 2024 Foster-Stahl Chapbook Series Selection, was released in May 2026 by Midwest Writing Center Press! Contact me at brittany [dot] jaekel [at] gmail [dot] com if you’d like to purchase.

Poetry (+ other creative work)

“Flood Year” in Glass: A Journal of Poetry (2026) <– Visit the link to hear me read this piece!

“TFMR” in MER (Mom Egg Review), volume 24 (2026)

“Compass Rose” in The MacGuffin, volume 42 (2026)

“Nights of Dirt [a love letter from Ophelia to Hamlet]” in Anacapa Review, volume 4, number 3 (2026)

Two poems at $ – Poetry is Currency

“Commuted” and “My Osiris” in Gone Lawn, issue 62

“Parrot” in South Florida Poetry Journal (SoFloPoJo), issue 39 <– Visit the link to hear me read this piece!

“At the Sea-Coast” in Heron Tree, volume 12

“Dream Definitions” in Molecule: A Tiny Lit Mag, issue 13

“fishhook” in West Trestle Review

“Ode to the Crow River” in Agates, 2025

“(Stepping into Christina Rossetti’s) DREAM-LAND” in First Step, a Wordwhipper Press Anthology

“Discord’s Golden Apple” in Club Plum Literary Journal, vol. 6, issue 3

“wheatfield with crows” in Pictura Journal, Issue 4

“Chesapeake” in RHINO, 2019

“Sweet Old Jan Gifts Us a Blanket” in Third Wednesday Magazine

“Anthurium” in Bird’s Thumb, vol. 4, issue 1

“commute” and “commute (tonight)” in Wild Roof Journal, issue 7

“Braid” in Burningword Literary Journal, issue 69

“TFMR* Fairytale” and “Another Memory” in Agates, 2023

“Grid” in Cracked Walnut Anthology Rewilding Hope

“april” in Fearsome Critters, The Quaranzine

“Nausicaa at Sixty” in Hartskill Review, vol. 4, issue 1

“IT’S BETTER THIS WAY” and “I, too, saw the whale” in Right Hand Pointing, issue 114: future words

“Pastoral” in Unlost Journal, issue 10

Awards

Foster-Stahl Chapbook Series Selection (2024), “The Witch’s Mouth” (+ publication)

Midwest Writing Center’s Iron Pen Contest (2025), Honorable Mention (Fiction), “Lamentation”

John Rezmerski Memorial Manuscript Competition (2024), Honorable Mention, “The Witch’s Mouth”

John & Helen Pappas Memorial Award (2024), Second Place, “Voice of Z.”

Southern Minnesota Poets Society Award (2021), Honorable Mention, “Jan”

Steinography Award (2021), Honorable Mention, “Ekphrastic Universe”

Faricy Award for Poetry (2011), First Place co-winner, “Thetis”

Faricy Award for Poetry (2011), Third Place, “Ode to the Crow River”

Edwin L. Shuman Best Honors Thesis in Writing (2011), co-winner, “Origins”

Edwin L. Shuman Prize for Fiction (2010), Second Place, “Tarragona”

Goings-on / Readings

*** = Invited Reader

SPECTRA Reading Series with Midwest Writing Center (May 2026)***

National Poetry Month with Midwest Writing Center: https://youtu.be/lpNzNRwlHwI?si=G8nC1SGA7ks4xs4t (April 2026)***

Agates IndyBookStore Tour (October – November 2025): Milkweed Books in Minneapolis, Hearthside Books in Watertown, and The Book Nook in Delano

Writer’s Night Out at OMNI Brewing, Maple Grove, MN (April 2025)***

Midwest Writing Center’s Iron Pen Awards Reading, Rock Island, IL (March 2025)

Poets & Pints, Minneapolis, MN (July 2024)***

Penned Poets, Online (January 2024)***

Cracked Walnut Literary Festival Reading with League of MN Poets – Great River Chapter (October 2023)

Literary Bridges, St. Paul, MN (October 2023)

Reader and representative for Northwestern University at the 12th Annual Citywide Undergraduate Poetry Festival, Chicago, IL (2011)

Positions

Agates Guest Editor (2026)

League of Minnesota Poets Website Guru (2025-present)

Cracked Walnut (Twin Cities Chapter of the League of Minnesota Poets) Board Member and Website Guru (2023-present)

Nonfiction Editor at Great Lakes Review (2020-present)

Art

“January Woods I” in Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine, issue 9