Jessica LanayJessica Lanay is an art writer, poet, librettist, and short fiction writer. She is a frequent contributor to BOMB Magazine and previously contributed to ArtSlant. Her poetry can be found in Poet Lore, Indiana Review, The Common, [PANK], Prairie Schooer and others. Her debut poetry collection am-phib-ian won the 2020 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Prize, judged by Toi Derricotte, from Broadside Lotus Press. Her short fiction can be found in Tahoma Literary Review, Duende, and Black Candies. Lanay published personal and craft essays in Salt Hill Journal and The Black Warrior Review, respectively. She is a 2018 recipient of a Millay Colony Residency. Also, in 2018, Jessica Lanay was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for her poem "Milk. Milk. Milk," that appeared in The Normal School. She has poetry forthcoming in When Language Broke Open: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Black Writers of Latin American Descent from Arizona University Press. Lanay is a fellow of Cave Canem and Callaloo. Read More Read Less