Jessica Guzman is the author of Adelante (Switchback Books, 2020), selected by Patricia Smith as winner of the 2019 Gatewood Prize. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in 32 Poems, Quarterly West, Stonecoast Review, The Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day, and elsewhere.
Her honors include American Literary Review’s Poetry Award, Harpur Palate's Milton Kessler Memorial Prize for Poetry, and the Product Poetry Prize. She is also the recipient of scholarships from the Tin House Winter Workshop, the Poetry Workshop at the Community of Writers, and the Kentucky Women Writers Conference.
Jessica received a B.A. from the University of South Florida, M.F.A. from West Virginia University, and Ph.D. from the University of Southern Mississippi's Center for Writers. She chairs Poetry and Poetry Studies for the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association and serves on the masthead of Memorious: a journal of new verse and fiction, having previously worked for Split Lip Magazine, Mississippi Review, Cheat River Review, and VIDA: Women in Literary Arts.
As an assistant professor at Widener University, she co-coordinates the Creative Writing Program and co-directs Sparrow House. She lives in Philadelphia.
Her honors include American Literary Review’s Poetry Award, Harpur Palate's Milton Kessler Memorial Prize for Poetry, and the Product Poetry Prize. She is also the recipient of scholarships from the Tin House Winter Workshop, the Poetry Workshop at the Community of Writers, and the Kentucky Women Writers Conference.
Jessica received a B.A. from the University of South Florida, M.F.A. from West Virginia University, and Ph.D. from the University of Southern Mississippi's Center for Writers. She chairs Poetry and Poetry Studies for the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association and serves on the masthead of Memorious: a journal of new verse and fiction, having previously worked for Split Lip Magazine, Mississippi Review, Cheat River Review, and VIDA: Women in Literary Arts.
As an assistant professor at Widener University, she co-coordinates the Creative Writing Program and co-directs Sparrow House. She lives in Philadelphia.