Brief bio

Jessica Roeder’s stories, poems, and essays have appeared in magazines including Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Threepenny Review, American Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, Third Coast, and AGNI. She is the author of the novel Division of Birds, winner of the Big Moose prize, forthcoming in 2028 from Black Lawrence; a poetry chapbook, Trees Full of Walking (Dancing Girl), and a fiction chapbook Staircases Will Outnumber Us (Red Bird). A 2025 McKnight Writer Fellow, she has been honored with a Pushcart Prize, a Minnesota State Arts Board grant, and a 2011 McKnight Artist Fellowship. She works as a copyeditor and proofreader for book publishers and teaches for Lighthouse Writers and elsewhere. She also teaches dance.