Jessica Morey-Collins
Originally from Southern California's Inland Empire, Jessica Morey-Collins currently works as a plans examiner in the Pacific Northwest. Jessica earned her MFA in poetry at the University of New Orleans, where she won an Academy of American Poets award, the Maxine and Joseph Cassin Prize for poetry thesis, and worked as associate poetry editor for Bayou Magazine. She earned her MCRP from the University of Oregon, where she managed projects to assess and improve organizational and economic resilience, and won the APA Academic Achievement Award. She has professional experience as an urban planner, educator, GIS marketer, curriculum developer, and graduate writing consultant. She is a mental health advocate, trauma survivor, and straight-passing queer, who spends her spare time consuming upsetting science fiction and true crime, and doting on her angelic friends, handsome partner, and ridiculous cats.
