Jessica Poli is the Managing Editor at Prairie Schooner. She holds a Ph.D. in English with a specialization in creative writing (poetry) from UNL, as well as an M.A. in English from UNL and an M.F.A. in Poetry from Syracuse University. Her debut poetry collection, Red Ocher, was a finalist for the 2023 Miller Williams Poetry Prize. She is also the author of four chapbooks, including Canyons (BatCat Press, 2018) and The Egg Mistress, which won the 2012 Gold Line Press Poetry Chapbook Competition. Along with Marco Abel and Timothy Schaffert, Poli co-edited the anthology More in Time: A Tribute to Ted Kooser, which won a 2022 Nebraska Book Award. Her work has appeared in Best New Poets, North American Review, and Poet Lore, among other places, and has been awarded a Wilbur Gaffney Poetry Prize, a Vreeland Award, a Louise VanSickle Creative Writing Award, and a Susan Atefat Peckham Fellowship. She has also been awarded a Stuff Memorial Dissertation Fellowship and a Hough Graduate Teaching Award in Creative Writing. Poli previously served as a graduate teaching assistant, Writing Center consultant, and assistant director of creative Writing at UNL.