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Jessica Garratt grew up in Maryland, and has lived in Iowa, Ireland, Texas, Missouri, and elsewhere. Her book Fire Pond won the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry and was published by the University of Utah Press in 2009. Jessica earned her PhD at the University of Missouri, where she taught Literature & Creative Writing, and has also held a visiting teaching appointment at Wichita State University. She has received fellowships from the Carson McCullers Center, the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin, where she earned her MFA. Jessica's poems have appeared in journals such as Michigan Quarterly Review, Shenandoah, The Missouri Review, Lit...more


Average rating: 4.56 · 9 ratings · 2 reviews · 1 distinct work
Fire Pond
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Carolina Hi, Jessica. I never really sign on here or use this social space much. I thought I'd be able to employ it for the books I have yet to read but want to...that hasn't worked out.


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