Jessica Abughattas is the author of Strip (University of Arkansas, 2020), winner of the 2020 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. She received an MFA from Antioch University in Los Angeles. From 2020 to 2022, she was the Poet Laureate of Altadena, California and editor of Altadena Poetry Review.

Her short poetry film DINNER PARTY premiered at Mizna Twin Cities Film Festival in 2021, was a finalist for Palette Poetry’s Brush and Lyre Prize, and appeared at RAWI Fest. She has taught poetry workshops for Kundiman, Sevilla Writers House, and Northeastern University’s Writing Center. Her poems can be found in Poetry, The Nation, The Kenyon Review, Guernica, The Yale Review, and elsewhere.