Jessica Purdy

Jessica Purdy holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College where she has taught writing and was a reader for Ploughshares, the Literary Journal. Her poetry has appeared in What Is Home (the 2007 Portsmouth Poet Laureate program’s publication), Ethereal Dances, Analecta, The Beacon Street Review, and Main Street Magazine. She lives in Exeter, New Hampshire, with her husband and two children. She runs poetry workshops locally and facilitates weekend writing retreats on Cape Cod.