Recent News
- Jessica has been awarded an artist grant from NYSCA to work on her 5th book. She is sponsored by the YMCA Downtown Writers Center and will present an event or workshop there in 2024. The grant is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
- Jessica’s poem is featured on Verse Daily.
- Poet and translator Philip Metres interviews Jessica for The Rumpus
- Yours, Creature was reviewed in Harriet Books by Rebecca Morgan Frank
- Cuello’s poem “Irene, Goodnight” was featured on Poetry Daily.
- LIAR has won The 2022 Eugene Paul Nassar Prize given by Utica University! On April 20th, Cuello gave a reading and master class at the university.
- See the Events page for upcoming 2024 readings.
- All news. (Updated March 27, 2024)
Bio
Jessica Cuello’s most recent book is Yours, Creature (JackLeg Press, 2023). Her book Liar, selected by Dorianne Laux for The 2020 Barrow Street Book Prize, was honored with The Eugene Nassar Prize, The CNY Book Award, a finalist nod for The Housatonic Book Award, and a longlist mention for The Julie Suk Award. Cuello is also the author of Hunt (The Word Works, 2017) and Pricking (Tiger Bark Press, 2016). Cuello has been awarded The 2022 Nina Riggs Poetry Prize, two CNY Book Awards, The 2016 Washington Prize, The New Letters Poetry Prize, a Saltonstall Fellowship, and The New Ohio Review Poetry Prize. In addition, Cuello has published three chapbooks: My Father’s Bargain (2015), By Fire (2013), and Curie (2011). In 2014 she was awarded The Decker Award from Hollins University for outstanding secondary teaching. She is poetry editor at Tahoma Literary Review and teaches French in CNY.
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“What Jessica Cuello knows could save us from ourselves.”
—Katie Ford, author of Blood Lyrics
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