Jen Silverman is a New York-based poet and playwright. Her full-length play Crane Story premiered off-Broadway in 2011 with The Playwright's Realm, and her one-act, The Education of Macoloco, won the 2009 Samuel French Off Off Broadway Fesival. She is currently working on her first book of poems. The Bath series, which won the 2012 Ploughshares Emerging Writer's Award in Poetry, is her first poetry publication.