Jessica Laser

Jessica Laser is a poet born and raised in Chicago who now lives in Los Angeles. Her third poetry collection, The Goner School, was published by the University of Iowa Press in 2024. She holds a BA from Brown University, an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and a PhD from UC Berkeley. She teaches at Claremont McKenna College. Her earlier books include Planet Drill, which won Futurepoem's Other Futures Award, and Sergei Kuzmich from All Sides.