“I have been here before / in another body, under another headless night. / Or perhaps // it is all the same night, the same night / tethering the tongues of my great-grandmothers / and their mothers.”
Jamaica (she/her/hers) hails from Santa Cruz, CA by way of Seattle. Her work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Prairie Schooner, World Literature Today, The Adroit Journal, The Missouri Review, and TriQuarterly, among others. She is a 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, was the winner of the 2019 San Miguel de Allende Writers Conference Contest in Poetry, and was a runner up for the 2020 Tupelo Press Berkshire Prize. Her writing has been supported by Hedgebrook, Furious Flower, and the Jack Straw Writers program. Jamaica is currently pursuing her PhD in English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln with a focus on creative writing, African Diaspora Literature, and Women and Gender Studies.
TMR: Leila Chatti, Jamaica Baldwin; Pleiades: Blas Falconer, Courtney Faye Taylor; 1-70 Review: Hadara Bar Nadav, Jenny Molberg; The Laurel Review: Gary Jackson, Dorothea Lasky; Bear Review: Ruth Awad, Megan Merchant; Boulevard: Bryan Byrdlong, Ron A. Austin; River Styx: John Moessner, Erin Saxon; New Letters: Liane Strauss, Rebecca Foust
Feb 4 2021
DATE: February 4, 2021
CONTACT: Jamaica Baldwin
Jamaica Baldwin Receives National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship
Lincoln, Nebraska—Today, the National Endowment for the Arts announced that Jamaica Baldwin is one of 35 writers who will receive an FY…
Jun 23 2020
Gaffney/Academy of American Poets Award.
Jun 23 2020
Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award for "Stitched" and "Symphonies" published in the Summer 2018 issue.
Jun 23 2020
Pushcart Prize Editors Nomination for "Call Me By My Name"
Jun 22 2020
Jack Straw Interview with Jourdan Imani Keith
"2017 Jack Straw Writer Jamaica Baldwin talks with curator Jourdan Imani Keith about finding her voice in poetry, adopting silence as a kind of armor, and the male gaze in art and literature…
