Jean Prokott

Jean Prokott is a poet based in Rochester, Minnesota, where she serves as poet laureate and teaches high school English. Her debut poetry collection, The Second Longest Day of the Year, won the Howling Bird Press Poetry Prize and came out with Howling Bird Press in 2021. She also wrote the chapbook The Birthday Effect (Black Sunflowers, 2021) and received a 2024 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship.