Jessica Smith was the founding editor of Foursquare and name magazines and Coven Press. A native of Birmingham, Alabama, she teaches Gender Studies at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and English at the University of Alabama, where she is also a Ph.D. student in Library and Information Sciences. Jessica is the author of eighteen chapbooks including Fever (Model Press 2021) and Lion's Den (above/ground press 2019) and three full-length books of poetry, Organic Furniture Cellar (Outside Voices 2006), Life-List (Chax Press 2015), and How to Know the Flowers (Veliz Books 2019). Her fourth "book," The Daybooks, which comprises a series of four books, is forthcoming from Insert Press. Two poems from The Daybooks were nominated for The Pushcart Prize in 2025.