Jess Yuan (she/her) is a poet, educator, and architect. She is the author of Slow Render (2024), winner of the Airlie Prize, and Threshold Amnesia (2020), selected by Justin Phillip Reed as winner of the Yemassee Chapbook Contest. Jess was awarded the Gulf Coast Poetry Prize and Sankey Prize, and was a finalist for the George Bogin Memorial Award. Jess has received fellowships from Kundiman and Miami Writers Institute, and her poems appear in Best New Poets, Tupelo Quarterly Review, and AGNI, among others. Jess received her BA in Architecture from Yale, M.Arch from Harvard Graduate School of Design, and MFA in Poetry from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins. She is currently the Director of Intermediate Architecture Studios at Boston Architectural College, and lives with her spouse on Massachusett, Pawtucket, and Naumkeag land. Jess Yuan’s writing is represented by Kima Jones at Triangle House Literary.
