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Jesica Davis (she/her) is a poet and technical writer from Chicago, though she’s 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. She 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). She is 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, 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 has continued to take classes and workshops at The New School, NYU, Poets House, Lighthouse, and other writing centers.

She's currently working on a manuscript of poetry; she also makes poemboxes and other visual poems that sculpturally interpret her words. 

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