Jessica Lanay, September - October 2026

Jessica Lanay is a hybrid poet, essayist, art historian, and art journalist. Her most recent reviews and interviews of artists can be found in BOMB Magazine and Art Review; she has also contributed writing to exhibition catalogs for The Andy Warhol Museum, Pen & Brush, and The Washington Project for the Arts. In 2020, the short film she wrote, As I Please, premiered with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Her debut poetry collection, am•phib•ian won the 2020 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Prize from Broadside Lotus Press.

Her writing can also be found in Indiana Review, Prairie Schooner, Poet Lore, Black Warrior Review, The Common, Salt Hill Journal, [PANK], and others. She is currently the 2024-2025 artist & scholar-in-residence for the Department of Fine and Performing Arts at Loyola University-Chicago. She is a fellow of Cave Canem, Callaloo, and Kimbilio.

Visit Jessica’s website here.

Author Photo and Book Cover Art by Jessica Lanay