Jessica Fisher is the author of Frail-Craft, which won the 2006 Yale Younger Poets Prize, and Inmost, recipient of the 2011 Nightboat Poetry Prize. Her poems appear in such journals as The American Poetry Review, The Believer, The Colorado Review, McSweeney’s, The New Yorker, The Threepenny Review, and TriQuarterly, and her translations have been published in The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, and Czeslaw Milosz’s New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001.
She holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of California at Berkeley, where she was also the Holloway Postdoctoral Fellow in Poetry and Poetics, and will join the faculty at Williams College in the fall of 2013.