Jessy Randall

Poet

Tutt Library Special Collections 1021 N. Cascade Ave.

Colorado Springs, CO 80903

Phone:

719-389-6668

Email:

jessyrandall@yahoo.com

Website:

personalwebs.coloradocollege.edu…

Author's Bio

Jessy Randall grew up in Rochester, NY, where the sky is almost always a pale shade of gray. She 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:

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:

Antietam Review

Many Mountains Moving

McSweeney's

Mudfish

Painted Bride Quarterly

Rattle

Sentence

West Wind Review

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: May 03, 2013