Janna Knittel is the author of Real Work, a finalist for the 2023 Minnesota Book Award in poetry, and the chapbook Fish & Wild Life. Knittel has also published poems in multiple journals as well as the following anthologies: Blue, A Humana Obscura Anthology (2025), Broad Wings, Long Legs: A Rookery of Heron Poems (2024), The Experiment Will Not Be Bound (2023); and Waters Deep: A Great Lakes Anthology (2018). Knittel has taught literature and writing classes at colleges and universities in Oregon, Kansas, and Minnesota and teaches creative writing workshops in community settings.