Poetry on Brick Street Presents
Jessica Thompson

Jessica lives in New Harmony, Indiana.  Her first poetry collection, Bullets and Blank Bibles (Liquid Paper Press, 2013), was a finalist in the 2012 Nerve Cowboy chapbook contest.   Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous journals, including:  The Midwest Quarterly, Plain Spoke; Lilliput Review; Tiferet; Tipton Poetry Journal; The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review; Posey Magazine; The Chaffin Journal; and in Bigger Than They Appear:  Anthology of Very Short Poems  by Accents Publishing.  She was recently awarded the 2013 James Baker Hall Memorial Prize in Poetry by New Southerner, judged this year by Maurice Manning.

Her website can be found at www.bulletsandblankbibles.com