VASILISA THE WISE
by
Jessica Q. Stark
Jessica Q. Stark is a mixed-race Vietnamese-American poet from Southern California who lives in Durham, North Carolina. She is a PhD Candidate in the English department at Duke University where she writes on the intersections between poetry and comics.
Her poetry and/or illustrations have been published or are forthcoming in Glass Poetry Journal, Potluck, Jellyhash, and Tupelo Quarterly. Her poetry chapbook, The Liminal Parade, was selected by Dorothea Lasky for Heavy Feather Review's Double Take Poetry Prize in 2016.
Her first full-length poetry collection, Savage Pageant, is forthcoming with Birds LLC.
She writes an ongoing love poetry zine called INNANET and curates the Little Corner Reading Series.