Jessica Q. Stark is the author of Buffalo Girl (BOA Editions, 2023), winner of a Florida Book Award and a finalist for the 2023 Maya Angelou Book Award, Savage Pageant (Birds, LLC, 2020), and four poetry chapbooks, including INNANET (The Offending Adam, 2021). Her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in The Nation, West Branch, Gulf Coast, The Florida Review, Pleiades, among other publications. She is member of She Who Has No Master(s), an artist collective of women and nonbinary writers of the Vietnamese diaspora who engage in collaborative, poly-vocal, and hybrid-poetic works to enact a politics of connection across diasporic boundaries. In 2025, she was named the South Arts State Fellow for Florida. She is a Poetry Editor at AGNI and is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Florida. Find out more here: https://jessicaqstark.com/.