Jessi MacEachern (she/her) lives in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, where she teaches English literature at Dawson College and Université de Montréal. She is the author of the poetry collections Cut Side Down (2025) and A Number of Stunning Attacks (2021). New poems have been published or are forthcoming in This Magazine, The Dalhousie Review, P-Queue, Arc, Grain, and The Ex-Puritan. Her most recent academic publications include a chapter on Gail Scott that appears in the edited essay collection Shelter in Text and an annual review of poetics scholarship in The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory. Her new chapbook The Nose on Her! is forthcoming with Turret House Press in 2026.


