He earned a BA while serving as an active duty Navy air crewman. After separating from the active duty, he completed the writing program at Warren Wilson College. His poetry has appeared in Boulevard, Connotation Press, Kenyon Review, Poetry Daily, Rattle, River Styx, Slate, Southern Review, Southwest Review, Southern Poetry Review, TriQuarterly, Zone 3, and other journals and anthologies. Forthcoming issues of Inertia, Journal of American Poetry, and Valparaiso Poetry Review will include poems by Edison Jennings. His chapbook, Reckoning, is available at Jacar Press