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Biography
Jessica Lanay is a poet, librettist, art critic, literary artist, and short fiction writer whose body of work focuses on how manifesting interiority and emotion interacts with poetic form, almost at the cost of nihilism. Lanay is invested in studying how concepts of race and gender infuse with a sense of psychological self and ways of being in the world. She holds her Bachelor of Arts in Art History from Agnes Scott College, her Master of Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Caribbean Studies, and her Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from the University of Pittsburgh. Her specialties are experimental Black Atlantic literatures and arts. In 2017 she and scholar Julian Gill-Peterson presented the paper “Extra-Linguistic, Extra-Human: Kristevan Melancholia, Semiotics, and Moten's Nothing”. In 2018 she presented her paper “Archetypes of the Mother-Other: Tracings of a Horrific Feminine from Homer” at the Northeastern Modern Language Association Conference. She is currently working on her manuscript amphibian, a new opera project to be composed by Karen Brown tentatively titled Locusta, and researching for a new project based on her hometown of Key West, Florida. She has short fiction published in Duende, Tahoma Literary Review, Black Candies: A Journal of Literary Horror, Linden Avenue Journal, Five Quarterly, and TAYO Literary Journal. She has poetry published in a number of literary journals, including Indiana Review, Prairie Schooner, Acentos Review, Fugue, A Bad Penny Review, The Normal School, and The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review. She has a personal essay published in Salt Hill Journal. Her art writing and criticism can be found in BOMB Magazine and ArtSlant. In 2017 she was awarded the Advancing Black Artists in Pittsburgh Grant for an oral history project based in Key West, Florida and the Hill District neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 2018 she received a residency at the Millay Colony and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by The Normal School for her poem “Milk. Milk. Milk.” She has work forthcoming in PANK and an excerpt from her manuscript will be published in The Common.
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