Jessica Q. Stark is a poet and scholar living in Jacksonville, Florida. She holds a PhD in English from Duke University and teaches writing at the University of North Florida. She is the author of three poetry chapbooks, one of which won Heavy Feather's Double Take Prize in 2016. Her debut full-length poetry book, Savage Pageant, was published in March 2020 by Birds, LLC and her poetry and/or illustrations have appeared in Pleiades, Glass Poetry Journal, Hobart Pulp, Carolina Quarterly, among others. She is an Assistant Poetry Editor for AGNI and the Comics Editor for Honey Literary.