Jerilyn Elise Miripol was a Fellow at The Ragdale Foundation in 1985. She was accepted to The Breadloaf Writers' Conference in Middlebury, Vermont and The Aspen Writers' Workshop. She received a full-tuition scholarship at The Squaw Valley Community of Writers in Olympic Valley, California. She studied 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, 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. Jerilyn serves as a writing-therapist with an office in The Mental Health Center at St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, Illinois.