Jessica Poli is a Ph.D. student in Creative Writing. Her debut poetry collection, Red Ocher, was a finalist for the 2023 Miller Williams Poetry Prize. She is also the author of four chapbooks, including Canyons (BatCat Press, 2018) and The Egg Mistress, which won the 2012 Gold Line Press Poetry Chapbook Competition. Along with Marco Abel and Timothy Schaffert, Poli co-edited the anthology More in Time: A Tribute to Ted Kooser, which won a 2022 Nebraska Book Award. She currently works as a Graduate Teaching Assistant, Writing Center Consultant, and Assistant Director of Creative Writing at UNL, as well as an Assistant Poetry Editor for Prairie Schooner. Her work has appeared in Best New Poets, North American Review, and Poet Lore, among other places, and she has been the recipient of a Wilbur Gaffney Poetry Prize.
Education
M.A., University of Nebraska–Lincoln
M.F.A., Syracuse University