Jenny Factor's award-winning first collection, Unraveling at the Name, was published by Copper Canyon Press. In poems that electrify and engage with a series of traditional and transmogrified verse forms, Factor explores issues of shifting identity and personal narrative. Unraveling at the Name was the recipient of a $10,000 Astraea Grant in Poetry, a Hayden Carruth Award, and was one of five finalists for a Lambda Literary Award.

Poetry Magazine reviewer (and poet) Christina Pugh writes that "[Factor's] verseforms sing with idiosyncrasy." Alicia Ostriker writes that "these are the best sonnets I've seen in ages. Tight and crafty and subtle and cruel…the loss, the gain, the heat, the rose, the thorns." She calls Unraveling at the Name "an amazing, extraordinary, gorgeous book." Marilyn Hacker says of Factor's work, "she finds the unexpected, the as-yet-unsaid…[this poetry] will resonate in the reader's mind after the book is shut, and before it's picked up again, as it will be."

Factor's poetry has appeared in more than a dozen anthologies, including California Poets from the Gold Rush to the Present, a 2004 Los Angeles Times Notable Book where Factor is the youngest poet included. Factor publishes book reviews and poems in the Paris Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Daily, Nerve, Shenandoah, Verse, and other venues. Her poem, Song Beside a Sippy Cup, was featured in former Poet Laureate Billy Collins' Poetry 180 project, and has been recently set to music by composer, Paul Carey. Factor has received fellowships to Vermont Studio Center, and has lectured at Amherst College, Harvard College, and numerous national and international conferences. Prior to serving at Antioch College, Factor was a Lecturer in English Language and Literature at Whittier College and an instructor with the UCLA Extension Writer's Program, where she taught courses in Diary and Memoir, Utopias and Dystopias, and the creative process.

Jenny Factor received her M.F.A. in Literature from the Bennington College Writing Seminars. At Harvard College, where she was the only incoming freshman admitted directly to Seamus Heaney's master class, Factor received an A.B summa cum laude in Anthropology and English. She has supported her family and her writing as an archaeologist, a preschool teacher, and a Web editor and journalist. Her son is now 10 years old, and her second collection is almost complete.