Jessamyn Smyth‘s poetry and prose have appeared in Red Rock Review, American Letters and Commentary, Nth Position, MiCrow/Full of Crow, Wingbeats: Exercises and Practices in Poetry. A finalist for the 2013 Neil Shepard Prize of Green Mountains Review, Smyth has received honorable mention in Best American Short Stories (2006), and was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She is the recipient of the Robert Francis Foundation, and Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference. Jessamyn was the Editor in Chief of Tupelo Quarterly, the founding Director of the new Quest Writer’s Conference, and is visiting faculty in Humanities at Quest University in Canada.

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