Jennifer Lagier is a member of the Italian American Writers Association, the Central Coast Writers and serves as the Ward One representative to the Monterey Peninsula Regional Park District Board. She has published scholarly articles relating to distance learning, electronic databases and the internet, including a section in the John Wiley & Sons Internet Encyclopedia. Her poetry has appeared in a variety of journals, anthologies, and e-zines throughout the U.S. and Italy.  Her five books are Coyote Dream Cantos (Iota Press, 1992), Where We Grew Up (Small Poetry Press, 1999), Second-Class Citizen (Voices in Italian Americana Folio Series, 2000), The Mangia Syndrome (Pudding House Publications, 2004), and Fishing for Portents (Pudding House Publications, 2008).