Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and Literature
Roberts 109
Education
- Ph.D., Literature and Creative Writing, University of Utah
- Graduate Certificate, Gender Studies, University of Utah
- MFA, Creative Writing in Poetry, University of Washington
- M.A., English and Creative Writing, University of California at Davis
- B.A., Activism and Social Change, New College of California
Biography
Jessica Rae Bergamino is an award-winning poet and educator. Her most recent collection, Girlhood x a Haunting, received the Driftwood Press Editors’ Prize and was published in February, 2025. Her previous full length collection, UNMANNED, was the recipient of the Noemi Press Poetry Prize. She is also the author of multiple chapbooks from dancing girl press and Sundress Publications. Individual poems and essays have appeared in Poem-a-Day, Third Coast, The Rumpus, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere.
Books
- Girlhood x A Haunting, Driftwood Press 2025: https://www.driftwoodpress.com/product-page/girlhood-x-a-haunting
- UNMANNED, Noemi Press, 2018: https://www.noemipress.org/catalog/poetry/unmanned
Online works
- Did Rise, Poem-a-Day (https://poets.org/poem/did-
rise) - Past Saturn, Voyager Two Imagines Herself as Liza Minnelli, Voyager One as Peter Allen in Drag, Gulf Coast (https://www.gulfcoastmag.org/stories/past-saturn-voyager-two-imagines-herself-as-liza-minnelli-voyager-one-as-peter-allen-in-drag,957)
- Feeling Under Appreciated, Voyager Two Imagines Herself as Miss Piggy, Gulf Coast (https://www.gulfcoastmag.org/stories/
feeling-underappreciated-voyager-two-imagines-herself-as-miss-piggy,956)
"I learned more about the craft of writing in my undergraduate creative writing workshops at Eckerd College than I did in the graduate workshops that earned me my MFA."
—Jay Baron Nicorvo '99, author
