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, M.Arch from Harvard Graduate School of Design, and MFA in Poetry from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins. She teaches at Boston Architectural College, and lives with her spouse on Massachusett, Pawtucket, and Naumkeag land.
