Randall, Jessy
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.
Published Works:
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
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
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