Jessica Q. Stark
Jessica Q. Stark is a poet, educator, and editor that lives in Jacksonville, Florida. Her poetry has most recently appeared in or is forthcoming in The Southeast Review, The Boiler, Pleiades, Up the Staircase Quarterly, Hobart Pulp, Tupelo Quarterly, Potluck, and for the Glass Poetry Journal: Poets Resist series. Her first poetry manuscript, The Liminal Parade, was selected by Dorothea Lasky for the Double Take Grand Prize in 2016 and was published by Heavy Feather Review. She is the author of three chapbooks including the mini-chapbook, Vasilisa the Wise, that was published by Ethel Zine Press in 2018. Her first full-length poetry collection, Savage Pageant, which was a finalist for the Norma Farber Award, the CSU Poetry Center's First Book Prize, the Rose Metal Press Hybrid Book Prize, and 42 Miles Press' First Book Award, was published by Birds, LLC in March 2020. She writes poetry reviews for Carolina Quarterly and is a member of the National Book Critics Circle. She serves currently as a Poetry Editor for AGNI. She holds a B.A. in English from UC Berkeley, an M.A. in English from Saint Louis University's Madrid Campus, and a PhD in English from Duke University. She teaches poetry as an Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of North Florida.
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