Jeanne Wagner is a native of San Francisco. A retired tax accountant, she is the author of four chapbooks and three full-length collections: The Zen Piano-Mover from NFSPS Press, 2001, In the Body of Our Lives, Sixteen Rivers Press, 2010, and Everything Turns Into Something Else, runner-up of the 2020 Grayson Books prize. She had been the recipient of several awards, including The Thomas Merton Poetry of the Spiritual Award, Arts & Letters Rumi Prize, and Sow's Ear awards for both an individual poem and a chapbook. Her work has appeared in Cincinnati Review, North American Review, Florida Review, Mississippi Review and The Southern Review.

Other poems by Jeanne Wagner in Verse Daily:
April 3, 2004:  "The Bibliophile" "His bedroom in shocking disarray..."

Books by Jeanne Wagner:

Other poems on the web by Jeanne Wagner:
"My mother was like the bees"
Five poems
Two poems
Two poems
Three poems
"Summer Interior"
"Graphology"
Two poems
"Voyeurs"

Jeanne Wagner's Website.

About Everything Turns Into Something Else:

"Whether her titles are exotic like 'Turning a Sentence Dark' or 'Epistemology of the Fall,' or somewhat familiar like 'The Angels' or 'Going for the Jugular,' Jeanne Wagner brings an originality to whatever she chooses to take on. I love, in particular, how she thinks her way down a page, every line seemingly discovered by the line that preceded it. A wonderful achievement."
—Robert Cording

"These are poems that move easily between the personal and the larger issues of human life. Full of wonderful metaphorical transformations, of one thing turning into something else, Everything Turns Into Something Else is a highly crafted and well organized book of poems in which the poems form a whole that is greater than its parts."
—John Brehm

"Here is a vivid, arresting, questioning book. In poem after poem, Jeanne Wagner brings extraordinary intelligence and electric language to subjects ranging from ocularists to aeroponics, Demeter to Descartes, a meditation on Oppenheimer's house to a defense of Goldilocks. It's a great pleasure to see such a lively mind so fully engaged. Everything Turns Into Something Else is full of wonders."
—Stephen Dunn