Jessie PtakJessie Ptak received her B.A. in Creative Writing from Pace University, where she was awarded the 2010 Hilary Becker Poetry Award. She received her M.F.A. in writing from Lindenwood University in 2016. She has worked as poetry editor at VOX Arts & Lierary Magazine and has worked on the editing teams at Her Circle Ezine, Magnolia Journal, and The Lindenwood Review. Jessie was a poetry reader at the 2010 Sigma Tau Delta International Convention and her work has appeared in Chronogram. Her chapbook, As We Forgive Those, was selected as a finalist in Five Oaks Press's "Our Wish for Blue" 2015 chapbook contest. Jessie resides in the Hudson Valley of New York with her husband and their three free-spirited children. Read More Read Less