Biography

Jessy Randall is the Curator of Special Collections at Colorado College. Her poems and other works have appeared in Asimov’s, Many Mountains Moving, McSweeney’s, Mudfish, Opium, Painted Bride Quarterly, Rattle, and Sentence. Her collection of poems A Day in Boyland (Ghost Road Press, 2007) was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. Her young adult novel The Wandora Unit (Ghost Road Press, 2009) is about love and friendship in the high school poetry crowd.  She also writes regularly for Verbatim: The Language Quarterly and occasionally guest-edits the online magazine Snakeskin. She lives in Colorado Springs with her husband and two children. Her website is http://personalwebs.coloradocollege.edu/~jrandall/.