Jeanne Larsen (born 1950 in Washington, D.C.) is a poet, novelist, translator, and essayist.

This includes not only the poetry and creative nonfiction, but also the novels in her Avalokiteśvara trilogy: Silk Road, Bronze Mirror, and Manchu Palaces.

Larsen grew up on U.S. Army posts in Kansas, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Germany.

In 1980, she moved to the Roanoke Valley of Virginia in the United States, where she taught literature and creative writing at Hollins University until 2019.

Friendship Commission Creative Artists Exchange Fellowship (creative nonfiction),[5] an Individual Artist Fellowship (fiction) from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (literary translation),[6] the William L. Crawford Award for the year's best new novelist from the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts and student prizes from the Academy of American Poets.