Jessica Reidy

Jessica Reidy is a writer and educator with works in Narrative Magazine as Story of the Week, Prairie Schooner, and other publications. She is the winner of the Nancy Thorp Poetry Prize, the Penelope Nivens Award for Creative Nonfiction, and the Glenna Luschei Prize, and her work has been nominated for a Pushcart and Best of the Net. She is co-host of Romanistan Podcast alongside Paulina Verminsky, which is a celebration of Roma lives and outcasts. Under the name Jezmina Von Thiele, she is a dancer, healer, artist, art model, and fortune teller, dealing in tarot, palmistry, and tea leaves. She is a queer witch, and can be found at jessicareidy.com and jezminavonthiele.com.