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Jessica Smith, Founding Editor of Foursquare and name magazines, serves as the Librarian for Indian Springs School, where she curates the Indian Springs School Visiting Writers Series. A native of Birmingham, Alabama, she received her B.A. in English and Comparative Literature: Language Theory, M.A. in Comparative Literature, and M.L.S. from SUNY Buffalo, where she participated in the
Poetics Program. She is the author of numerous chapbooks including
mnemotechnics (above/ground 2013) and two full-length books of poetry,
Organic Furniture Cellar (Outside Voices 2006) and
Life-List (Chax Press 2015). "22 October 2013 / Birmingham" is from
The Daybooks.