Jadene Felina Stevens

Who is Jadene Felina Stevens?

Jadene Felina Stevens was an award-winning poet who has been widely published. As a native to the Boston area, she began writing poetry at a young age. Stevens was the founder and director of The Saltwinds Poets, based on Cape Cod. In 2013, her book Across the Hedge: Calling on Emily Dickinson was published posthumously. Other works by Stevens include Witches: The Voices of Three Women Accused and The Original Trinity.

Her poetry has appeared in Yankee Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, Cape Women Online Magazine, Pedestal Magazine, Muddy River Poetry Review, Brevities, The Aurorean, Prairie Schooner, Transnational Perspectives, Psychopoetica, and Doors Out of Dorset.

Her poems and prose have also been included in a number of anthologies: Crossing Boundaries - An International Anthology of Women's Experiences in Sport, edited by Susan J. Bandy, Anne S. Darden, Heartbeat of New England: An Anthology of Contemporary Nature Poems, edited by James Fowler, and World of Water, World of Sand by Cape Women Creating and Shank Painter Press.