Jason Bredle is the author of eight poetry collections, including four chapbooks. His ninth collection, I Love You But I Don’t Speak Your Language, was awarded the 2025 Juniper Prize for Poetry and is forthcoming from the University of Massachusetts Press in 2026. Diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, he’s a former recipient of a grant from the Illinois Arts Council as well as the New Issues Poetry Prize, and his poems have appeared in publications such as JAMA, Denver Quarterly, and 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day. He serves as a linguist on behalf of the life sciences community, where his co-authored work has been published in The Handbook of Quality of Life in Cancer, Quality of Life Research, Medical Science Monitor, and the International Journal of Infectious Diseases, among others, and he is an associate editor of the Journal of Patient Reported Outcomes. In addition to studying at the Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico, he earned a BA in English literature and Spanish from Indiana University,, where he was named Ruth Halls Outstanding Young Artist in Poetry, and an MFA from the University of Michigan, where he received a Hopwood Major Award for Poetry, the Michael R. Gutterman Award in Poetry, the Bain-Swiggett Poetry Prize, and collaborated alongside others with Anne Carson on ”The Mirror of Simple Souls," a libretto for an experimental opera installation based on the life and writings of the 13th-century mystic Marguerite Porete. Since 2001, he has lived in Chicago and its surrounding areas, where he currently resides with his family.

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