Jan Conn is a Research Scientist at the Wadsworth Center, Division of Infectious Diseases, New York State Department of Health in Albany NY, and Professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the School of Public Health, SUNY-Albany.
She has a Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of Toronto. She has lived in Montreal, Vancouver, Toronto, Caracas (Venezuela), Gainesville (Florida), and Burlington (Vermont).
Since 2002 she has been living in western Massachusetts, conducting research on insects that transmit pathogens.
Reading Edge Effects, Jan Conn’s masterful eighth collection, is a little::text like looking at Edward Burtynsky’s photographs of real industrial wastelands; both visions are as gorgeous as they are terrifying, platforms for thought, even for activism, depending as they do on the energy of the viewer/reader for completion.
Cover art: Photograph of East Greenbush, NY artist Suzanne Hicks' colour palette.
Jan Conn reads Dog Star Rising from Edge Effects on Audioboo
Poets in Profile: Jan Conn - Interview with Jan Conn at Open Book: Ontario
Jan Conn - Space is a Temporal Concept