Jessica Laser was born and raised in Chicago. She is the author of three poetry collections, including The Goner School, Planet Drill, winner of Futurepoem Books’ Other Futures Award, and Sergei Kuzmich from All Sides. She earned a BA from Brown University, an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Her poems and interviews have appeared in The Drift, The Iowa Review, The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Los Angeles and teaches at Claremont McKenna College.
See also
- Interview with Jessica Laser The Iowa Review
- Jessica Laser reads “Consecutive Preterite” The Paris Review
- Author Website