A creative writing teacher and poet, Jody Rambo received her Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from Colorado State University and spent sixteen years teaching English and writing at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. Along with her university teaching, she offered short courses and workshops for community college, high school, and middle school students in schools and arts outreach program. She moved to Staunton, Virginia in 2017 with her husband, daughter, and son.
Jody is the author of the chapbook Tethering World (Kent State UP). Her work has appeared in Best New Poets 2016, Poetry International, North American Review, Gulf Coast, Barrow Street, Colorado Review, Verse Daily, Fourteen Hills, Blackbird, Notre Dame Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review, among others. She is a recipient of five Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards, a Vermont Studio Center Residency Fellowship, and a Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant in Literature. She received the Wabash Prize for Poetry selected by Mary Szybist and the Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize judged by Dan Beachy-Quick. Her work has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize.