Birth Year (-Died Year)
1969
Birth City
Hornell
Birth State
NY
Current Location
Colorado Springs CO
Author's Website
Occupation(s)
Librarian
Biography
Jessy Randall is the Curator of Special Collections at Colorado College, a position she has held since 2001. She publishes regularly in literary magazines, is the author of several books, and occasionally guest-edits the online poetry journal Snakeskin.
Awards/Honors
A Poem from Injecting Dreams into Cows was chosen to adorn a street-cleansing truck in Australia as part of the Sydney Writers Festival
Colorado Book Award finalist, 2007
Denise Pomeraning Memorial Enrichment Grant, 2011
Pikes Peak Arts Council micro-grant, 2009 and 2011
Nominated by various editors for the Best of the Net, Best American Non-Required Reading, and Best Creative Non-Fiction anthologies along with prizes including the Pushcart and the Rhylsing
Education/Training
Master's in Library Science, UNC-Chapel Hill, 1994 - AB, Columbia University, 1992
Local Authors Genres
Published Works
Published Works Book Jackets
Interviews
Organizations
AWP - ALA
Speaker Availability
Yes
Speaker Topics
Poetry - digital literature - Helen Hunt Jackson's novel Ramona - language and slang (including etymologies of Harry Potter spell words) - library shenanigans