Jessica Piazza is the author of three poetry collections and a children’s book. Born and raised in Brooklyn, Jessica now lives in Los Angeles where she is a writing professor at the University of Southern Californiaand a book club facilitator for Literary Affairs. She co-founded Bat City Review and Gold Line Press, and is the 2019 recipient of the Amy Clampitt Residency Program award. To learn more, visit www.jessicapiazza.com.

The books  mentioned at the end of the interview are: Bree Rolfe, Who's Going to Love the Dying Girl / Unsolicited Press, 2021, and Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun / Knopf, 2021.

The books pictured below by Jessica Piazza are Interrobang / Red Hen Press, 2013, This is not a sky / Black Lawrence Press, 2014 and Obliterations / Red Hen Press, 2016.