Jessy Randall

Poet

Colorado Springs, CO
Colorado US
Email: 
jessyrandall@yahoo.com
Website: 
personalwebs.coloradocollege.edu…

Author's Bio

Jessy Randall has an AB from Columbia University and an MLS from UNC-Chapel Hill and is now the Curator of Special Collections at Colorado College, where she co-teaches a half-credit course in the history and future of the book. She lives in Colorado Springs with her family.

Publications & Prizes

Books:
Mathematics for Ladies: Poems on Women in Science (Penguin Random House, 2022)
,
How to Tell If You Are Human: Diagram Poems (Pleiades Press, 2018)
,
Suicide Hotline Hold Music (Red Hen Press, 2016)
,
There Was an Old Woman (Unicorn Press, 2015)
,
Injecting Dreams into Cows (Red Hen Press, 2012)
,
Interruptions: Collaborative Poems (Pecan Grove Press, 2011)
,
The Wandora Unit (Ghost Road Press, 2009)
,
A Day in Boyland (Ghost Road Press, 2007)
Chapbooks:
Broken Heart Diet (Unicorn Press, 2006)
,
Because Mona is the Psychiatric Hospital (Pudding House Publications, 2005)
,
Slumber Party at the Aquarium (Unicorn Press, 2004)
Journals:
Analog
,
Antietam Review
,
Asimov's Science Fiction
,
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet
,
Many Mountains Moving
,
McSweeney's
,
Mudfish
,
Nature
,
Painted Bride Quarterly
,
Poetry Magazine
,
Rattle
,
Scientific American
,
Sentence
,
West Wind Review
,
Women's Review of Books
Prizes won: 

Denise Pomeraning Memorial Enrichment Grant, 2011; Pikes Peak Arts Council Grants, 2011 and 2009; Colorado Book Award finalist, 2007; Brain, Child essay contest Honorable Mention, 2002; The Nation poetry contest semi-finalist, 1999.

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Feminist
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Hornell
Raised in: 
Rochester, NY
New York
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Last update: Oct 04, 2023