Jessica Turcat

Jessica Turcat's book Hunger House won the 2023 Saguaro Poetry Prize by Kallisto Gaia Press. Her latest work has appeared in the Brill anthology Women Who Write Animals: Female Literary Representations of the More-Than-Human World as well as San Diego Poetry Annual, Indiana Review, and Rewilding Anthology: Poems for the Environment. She received the OSU Center for the Humanities - Medical/Health Humanities Fellowship for 2023-24 and worked to implement Uplift! 2024 - Educational Parenting Series in Payne County. She draws inspiration for her writing from her studies focused on body politics, feminist mothering, and women's literature.