Lit Chat Interview with Jessica Q. Stark

Completely Booked - Official Podcast of the Jacksonville Public Library

Jessica Q. Stark is the author of Buffalo Girl (BOA Editions, forthcoming April 2023), Savage Pageant (Birds, LLC, 2020) and four poetry chapbooks, including INNANET (The Offending Adam, 2021). Savage Pageant was named one of the “Best Books of 2020” in The Boston Globe and in Hyperallergic. Her poetry has most recently appeared or is forthcoming in Best American Poetry, Poetry Society of America, Pleiades, The Southeast Review, Carolina Quarterly, The Boiler, Tupelo Quarterly, Glass Poetry Journal, among others. She is a Poetry Editor at AGNI and is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Florida. She co-organizes the Dreamboat Reading Series with Dorsey Craft in Jacksonville, Florida.

Interviewer Dorsey Craft is the author of Plunder, winner of the May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize. Her work has received support from the Sewanee Writer's Conference and the Anderson Center at Tower View. Dorsey's poems have appeared recently or are forthcoming in Blackbird, Cincinnati Review, Copper Nickel, Pleiades, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. She currently serves as Assistant Poetry Editor of AGNI and teaches composition and creative writing at the University of North Florida.

JESSICA RECOMMENDS

Top three poetry books on my shelf:

• Dorothy Chan's Babe
• Carmen Jimenez Smith's Be Recorder
• Diane Seuss' Frank: Sonnets

Semi-secret favorite haunts in Jax:

• Light on the Sugar bakery for phenomenal Asian pastries and creme puffs
• Trent's Seafood for the best low-key seafood in town
• Camp Chowenwaw Park for unique, treehouse camping just outside of town

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