
Jessica Lee
Poetry Workshop participant '18Her poem “Lust Must Have Struck for the First Time” that was written for Sharon’s workshop during the 2018 Poetry program was recently published in the September 2019 issue of The New Yorker.
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Her poem “Lust Must Have Struck for the First Time” that was written for Sharon’s workshop during the 2018 Poetry program was recently published in the September 2019 issue of The New Yorker.
Her essay “Pojangmacha People” recently won an emerging writers contest at Ploughshares. She brought a version of this essay to the Writers Workshop this past summer.
Her debut collection, Refugia, winner of the inaugural Test Site Poetry Series Prize, was published in September, 2019, by University of Nevada Press.
Fellow Community of Writers Poetry alum Danny Kraft reviewed Refugia over at Ecotheo Review. Check it out here: http://www.ecotheo.org/2019/08/god-is-the-apple/
Her debut poetry collection A Nail the Evening Hangs On forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in February 2020 is now available for pre-order.
Her novel, Feral, North Carolina, 1965, from Southern Fried Karma Press, hits bookstores on September 17, 2019.
Her book World Gone Missing: Stories is the winner of 2018 Nautilus Book Prize silver medal in fiction.
Her English-language debut Like Water and Other Stories was published by WTAW Press in September, 2019, and received a glowing review from The Moscow Times.
Her newest full-length collection, Learning to Swim, forthcoming from Stephen F. Austin State University Press, is a hybrid of memoir and poems.
Her poem, “Rose Marie Bentley’s Aberrant Vena Cava,” is published in the Autumn 2019 issue of Rust+Moth. The poem was inspired by the real-life Rose Marie Bentley, who lived to be 99 with organs in all the wrong places.
His essay, “Has India Had Its Stonewall Moment?” has been published on Sept 6, 2019, in The Mantle, to mark the first anniversary of the decriminalization of the LGBT community in India. June 2019 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in New York. Gaitonde looks at both.
A selection of her poems will be featured in Persimmon Tree. Poems are forthcoming in Plume and The New Yorker.
She won the 2019 Strands International Flash Fiction first and third competitions with her stories “Howie” and “The Library.”
He wont the 2019 Tupelo Press Broadside Competition for his poem “Night School.”
Her novel Italian Love Cake will be published by Bordighera Press in Fall 2020; a personal essay, “Beneath Snowy Foothills,” appears online in the July 2019 issue of Ovunque Siamo.
Her short story collection, Happy Like This, won Iowa’s 2019 John Simmons Short Fiction Award and will be released on October 15, 2019.
Her second book-length work, The Sci-Fi Story With the Cat in It – Short Stories, will be published by Balut Press in September 2019.
His newest book of poetry, Blood Stripes, was published by Sundress Publications, which won the publisher’s Fall 2018 first place poetry prize.
Riga Pine, a poem with audio, appears in Interim’s current issue, Carrying Across: Crossing Disciplines as a Form of Translation.
Her poem “Watching the Olympics on Morphine” was a finalist for the Bellevue Literary Review’s Marica and Jan Vilcek Prize and appeared in BLR‘s Issue 36, Spring/Summer 2019.
A selection of her poems are included in Tough Enough: Poems from the Tough Old Broads Ann Menebroker, Victoria Dalkey, Viola Weinberg, Kathryn Hohlwein, A Lake House Publication, released by Cold River in March 2019.
Her new book, Small Silent Things, was recently published by HarperCollins.
His poem, “A Posterity Conceived and Born of Conscious Love,” is published on the Poydras Review blog. The title is a quote from early 20th century birth control activist Margaret Sanger, who went on to be a founder of Planned Parenthood.