Jess Parker

Jess Parker is a poet from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan who now lives in the Madison, Wisconsin area. Her debut poetry collection, Star Things, won the inaugural Dynamo Verlag Book Prize. The 61-poem book was written over about a decade, beginning while she was a student at Northern Michigan University. Parker studied English and Spanish literature as an undergraduate and later earned a graduate degree in Spanish literature at UW-Madison. Her poems have appeared in journals including SurVision Magazine's Issue Eleven.