Jerilyn Elise Miripol was a Fellow at The Ragdale Foundation in 1985. She was accepted to The Breadloaf Writers' Conference in Middlebury, Vermont;; The Aspen Writers' Workshop; she received a full-tuition scholarship at The Squaw Valley Community of Writers in Olympic Valley, California; she was asked to study with Pulitzer-Prize Winning poet, Lisel Mueller, at The University of Indiana, Bloomington. She was invited to join PEN International–South Africa and PEN America. She was a nominee of The Danforth Foundation. Her poetry was published in a mental-health textbook, «Group Psychotherapy: Practice and Development» by Barry Levine PhD which was published by Prentice-Hall. She is a poet-in-the-prisons teaching writing to prisoners, as well as sending them relevant books for their education, in Lexington, Kentucky, The Pontiac Correctional Center in Illinois and Joliet Prison. Ms Miripol is a writing-therapist with an office in The Mental Health Center at St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, Illinois. She works with students who are on disability (SSI, Medicare and Medicaid) due to their mental illness. She, also, teaches students from the community-at-large through an ad in The Chicago Tribune.
