Jeri is the editor of the anthology Wait: Poems from the Pandemic (Littoral Books, 2021). Other publications include: Radost, my red, published by Moon Pie Press in 2016 and several chapbooks: In the Museum of Surrender winner of  the 2013 Encircle Publications chapbook contest, Catholic (Pudding House Publications, 2002), Corn Dance (Nightshade Press, 1994), first runner-up in the William and Kingman Page Poetry Chapbook Contest, and in 2023 (M)OTHER, published by Dancing Girl Press.

Recent honors include the 2023 Maine Arts Commission Literary Arts Fellowship, the 2023 Maine Writers and Publishers Monson Arts (Residency) Fellowship, the 2022 NORward Prize from New Ohio Review, and the 2019 Maine Literary Award for poetry (short works). She was the third-place winner in the Nâzim Hikmet Poetry Contest (2020), and a finalist for the William Matthews Poetry Prize in 2019 and 2022.

Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including The Beloit Poetry Journal, Rhino, Rattle, Juked, The Texas Review, The Asheville Poetry Review  and The American Journal of Poetry. 

Her work has also been anthologized in these and other collections: Orpheus and Company, Contemporary Poems on Greek Mythology, French Connections: An Anthology of Poetry by Franco-Americans, and The Return of Kral Majales, Prague’s International Literary Renaissance 1990-2010, Heliotrope,  3-Nations Anthology, and  Balancing Act 2: An Anthology of Poetry by Fifty Maine Women.

Since 2018 Jeri has published reviews in Connotations Press, The Collagist, The Rumpus, The Cafe Review, Plume and The Maine Sunday Telegram. Currently, she serves as Lead Poetry Editor for Rise Up Review.

A Fulbright recipient, Jeri spent a year (1998-99) teaching in Prague where she published a dual-language chapbook, East of Monhegan. She returned to Prague in 2002 and spent six years as English department chair at the International School of Prague.