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Jessica Guzman Alderman was born in southwest Florida to Cuban exiles. Her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Shenandoah, jubilat, The Greensboro Review, Tin House's Broadside Thirty Series, Pleiades, Ecotone, Copper Nickel, and elsewhere. Her honors include American Literary Review’s 2017 Poetry Award, Harpur Palate's 2017 Milton Kessler Memorial Prize for Poetry, and the 2016 Product Poetry Prize. She is also the recipient of scholarships from the Tin House Winter Workshop, the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley Poetry Workshop, and the Kentucky Women Writers Conference. She received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from West Virginia University, where she served as poetry editor for Cheat River Review. Currently, she studies as a doctoral candidate at the University of Southern Mississippi's Center for Writers. She reads poetry for Memorious and Split Lip Magazine. |