Jennifer Hill-Kaucher is the author of four books of poetry: Questioning Walls Open, from FootHills Publishing in 2001, Nightcrown, a crown of sonnets in a limited edition lotus book in 2003, Book of Days, from FootHills Publishing, 2005, and A Proper Dress, 2006. Her play, The Hem of the Garment was chosen for the 2002 Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Alaska with Edward Albee, and three of her plays were produced by Bracken Theatre in Spring of 2007. A Pennsylvania Council on the Arts roster poet, Jennifer conducts poetry workshops and residencies throughout the state and recently in Ireland.

Her poems have appeared in Sugar Mule, Ward 6, Elegant Thorn, Lilies and Cannonballs Review, right hand pointing, Yarrow, Curious Rooms, The Northwest Florida Review, Other Voices Canada, Hedge Apple and Poetry Review Salzburg Austria, as well as in the anthologies In the Arms of Words, from FootHills and Sherman Asher, and In a Fine Frenzy: Poets Respond to Shakespeare, from University of Iowa Press. She was the recipient of a Lackawanna County Cultural Council Grant to support a collaboration with the mixed-media artist, Liz Parry-Faist. She has translated poetry from Japanese with the poet and editor of Happa no Kofu, Kazue Daikoku.

She is co-editing the Ars Poetica anthology with Dan Waber, and has also co-edited Listening To Water: The Susquehanna Watershed Anthology from FootHills Publishing.

Among her other writing exploits, Jennifer participated in the x365 daily writing project, and now writes a story a day (or nearly) at JHK's Daily Mirror.

Jennifer is editor of Paper Kite Press and owner of Wordpainting, a studio devoted to creative writing and visual art. She lives with her daughter Helen in the Kingston area where they both fold origami, write poetry, make pottery, collect old typewriters and found ephemera, read Darby Conley’s cartoon “Get Fuzzy,” eat sushi and beg people to release the remarkable stories that they hold inside of themselves.