Jessica Fisher

Her second book, Inmost, won the 2011 Nightboat Poetry Prize.

• Name — Jessica Fisher • Born — 12 March 1976 • Birthplace — Claremont, California • Education — Swarthmore College University of California at Berkeley • Genre — Poetry

Her poems and translations appear in such journals as The American Poetry Review, At Length, The Believer, the Colorado Review, McSweeney's, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, The Threepenny Review, and TriQuarterly. With Robert Hass, she co-edited The Addison Street Anthology; this book serves as a guide to the Berkeley Poetry Walk, which was named a National Poetry Landmark by the Academy of American Poets. She holds a B.A. in English and Art History from Swarthmore College and a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of California at Berkeley, where she was the Holloway Postdoctoral Fellow in Poetry and Poetics from 2009 to 2011. She is the daughter of Ann Fisher-Wirth.

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• The Paris Review, "The Swallow's Testicles," a translation of a poem by Hans Arp • The New York Review of Books, "Forget", a translation of a poem by Czeslaw Milosz

• The New Yorker, Ligaya Mishan • Library Journal • Boston Review, Amelia Klein • Kenyon Review, Meghan O'Rourke • The Missouri Review, Chad Parmenter • The Rumpus, T Fleischmann