Jessica Abughattas is the author of Strip, winner of the 2020 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. Her writing has appeared in POETRY, The Kenyon Review, Poem-A-Day, The Yale Review, and The Adroit Journal, among other publications. She served as Poet Laureate of Altadena.

Her short poetry film Dinner Party premiered at the Mizna Twin Cities Film Festival, was a finalist for Palette Poetry’s Brush and Lyre Prize, and screened at RAWI Fest.

She holds an MFA from Antioch University Los Angeles and has led workshops for Kundiman, Orion, and Northeastern University’s Writing Center. She is the former editor of Altadena Poetry Review (2020–2022) and former Editor-in-Chief of Lunch Ticket (2016–2017).