Jessica Cuello is the author of Pricking (Tiger Bark Press, 2016), which won the CNY Book Award; Hunt (The Word Works, 2017); and the chapbooks My Father's Bargain (2015), By Fire (2013), and Curie (2011). She has been awarded The Washington Prize (for Hunt), The New Letters Poetry Prize, a Saltonstall Fellowship, and The Decker Award from Hollins University for outstanding teaching. Pricking was recently nominated for the CNY Book Award and Hunt was a finalist for The Lawrence J. Epstein Visiting Writer Award at SCCC. Cuello teaches French in Central New York.