Jessica Smith

Jessica Smith, founding editor of Foursquare and name magazines and Coven Press, teaches at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She received her BA in English and Comparative Literature: Language Theory, MA in Comparative Literature, and MLS from SUNY Buffalo, where she participated in the Poetics Program; she is now pursuing her MFA at Miami University (OH). She is the author of numerous chapbooks including Trauma Mouth (Dusie 2015) and The Lover is Absent (above/ground press, forthcoming 2017) and three full-length books of poetry, Organic Furniture Cellar (Outside Voices 2006), Life-List (Chax Press 2015), and How to Know the Flowers (Veliz Books 2019).