Brief bio

Jessica Roeder is the author of THE BONES OF THE MOUSE MAKE THE CAT, a linked-story collection forthcoming from Regal House (2028). The book won the W.S. Porter Prize. She is a 2025 McKnight Writer Fellow. Her stories, poems, and essays have appeared in magazines including Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Threepenny Review, American Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, Third Coast, and AGNI. Staircases Will Outnumber Us, a prose chapbook, is available from Red Bird, and a poetry chapbook, Trees Full of Walking, is forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press. 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.