Jamaica Baldwin hails from Santa Cruz, CA by way of Seattle. Her first book, Bone Language, will be published by YesYes Books in 2023. Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, The Adroit Journal, Guernica, and The Missouri Review, among others. She is a 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow and winner of the 2021 RHINO Poetry Editors’ Prize. Jamaica is currently pursuing her PhD in English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln with a focus on poetry and Women’s and Gender Studies.