Jessica Grim is the author of several books of poetry including Vexed (/Ubu Editions), Fray, Locale, and The Inveterate Life. She retired in 2018 from Oberlin College, where she was a librarian, and is recently returned from Myanmar, where she was evacuated from her work in the Peace Corps due to Covid. She lives in Ohio.
With Melanie Neilson, she was a co-founder and editor of the 1990’s small press magazine Big Allis, which focused on experimental writing by women. Additional excerpts from their recently completed long-form collaborative work, The Autobiography of Jean Foos, have appeared in Bomb and Conjunctions.