Jess Yuan (she/her) is a poet, educator, and architect. She is the author of Slow Render (2024), winner of the Airlie Prize, and Threshold Amnesia (2020), selected by Justin Phillip Reed as winner of the Yemassee Chapbook Contest. Jess has received fellowships from Kundiman and Miami Writers Institute, and her poems appear in Best New Poets, Tupelo Quarterly Review, jubilat, Beloit Poetry Journal, Pleiades, and elsewhere. Jess received her BA in Architecture from Yale and Master in Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design, and has taught architectural studios at Wentworth and Boston Architectural College. She is a licensed architect in Massachusetts and Certified Passive House Consultant. Jess is currently an MFA candidate in Poetry at the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins; she and her spouse split their time between Boston (Massachusett, Pawtucket, and Naumkeag land) and Baltimore (Susquehannock and Piscataway land).
