Ösel Jessica Plante’s fiction and poetry have appeared in Best New Poets 2017, Best Small Fictions 2016, Narrative Magazine, and Passages North, among others. She is winner of the 2018 Meridian Editors Prize in poetry and is a former fellow of the Vermont Studio Center. She holds an MA in English from the University of North Texas, an MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and is pursuing a PhD in poetry at Florida State University. She teaches and writes in Tallahassee, Florida.  

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