Jessica Fjeld is the author of the chapbooks The Tide (2010) and On animate life (2006), a winner of the Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Jubilat, Poetry Magazine, Boston Review, Conduit, Sixth Finch,Better: Culture & Lit, and H_NGM_N, among other journals. She received her MFA from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and now lives in Boston, where she works as a lawyer.