Jasmine V. Bailey

Jasmine V. Bailey has been an O'Connor creative writing fellow at Colgate University, a Fulbright fellow in Argentina, and a fellow at the Vermont Studio Center. She has worked as a poetry editor for Meridian and as a book reviewer and poetry reader for 32 Poems, Virginia Quarterly Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, and the Carolina Quarterly. Her chapbook, Sleep and What Precedes It, won the 2009 Longleaf Press Chapbook prize, and her book-length collection, Alexandria, published by Carnegie Mellon, won the 2014 Central New York Book Award for poetry. Her second book-length collection, Disappeared, will be published by Carnegie Mellon in October 2017. She received her MFA from the University of Virginia and is a PhD student at Texas Tech University.