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Jes(ica) Davis (she/they) is a poet and technical writer from Chicago, though they’ve lived in various other places including Champaign-Urbana, Sydney, Minneapolis, Berlin, Brooklyn, Denver, Miami, and northwest Michigan. Her work has appeared in The Laurel Review, Storm Cellar, streetcake magazine, Stoneboat, Zone 3, and many other publications. Jesica won Pilgrimage Press’s Tarantula Prize for Poetry (2019), was a finalist for the AfterHours Press Mary Blinn Poetry Prize (2023), and was a finalist for the Paper Nautilus Vella Chapbook Contest (2019), in addition to being nominated for a Pushcart Prize (2019, 2021) and Best of the Net award (2019). They are employed full-time, remotely as a technical writer for a software company, and participates in a local mutual aid group.

Jesica is a Co-Founder and Associate Editor for Inverted Syntax literary journal, Contributing Editor for Milwaukee Avenue Messenger, worked as a typesetter for the University of Chicago Press, learned bookbinding at Columbia College, and was the final Alice Maxine Bowie Fellow at Lighthouse Writers Workshop (2016-2017). She studied poetry at the University of Illinois in the ‘90’s and has continued taking classes and workshops ever since at The New School, NYU, Poets House, Lighthouse, and other writing centers.

Jesica is currently working on a manuscript of poetry on ecodeath by plastic. They practice sculptural poetics, sometimes making poemboxes, visual poems, and other 3D interpretations of their poems.

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