Jacqui Germain is a poet and journalist living and working in St. Louis, Missouri. Presently, her work is most engaged in questions about confrontational politics, political rupture, repair and resiliency, and collective loss and memory. She’s the author of a poetry chapbook, When the Ghosts Come Ashore (Button Poetry, 2016), and a full-length poetry collection, Bittering the Wound (Autumn House Press, 2022), which chronicles the 2014 Ferguson Uprising and was selected for the 2021 Center for African American Poetry and Poetics Book Prize and awarded the 2024 Kate Tufts Discovery Award by Claremont Graduate University. Her journalism has been published in Teen Vogue, Hammer & Hope, In These Times, The Nation, VICE, and more. She’s a member of St. Louis Anti-Imperialist Collective.