Jessica Edwards is a Chicago-based poet, who is originally from Washington DC. She is a former middle school English teacher. Her love of science fiction often inspires her poetry to have a speculative bent, but she also draws from her religious upbringing, childhood study of the classics, and her identity as a Black American woman. Jessica has self-published three collections that are available on this site as well as individual poems. She has contributed to a few publications as well. Jessica enjoys spending time with her husband and son.