Areas I Teach
Jamaica Baldwin’s first book, Bone Language, was published by YesYes Books in June 2023. Her work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Guernica, World Literature Today, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Northwest, and The Missouri Review, and more. She is the recipient of a 2024 North American Book Awards Gold Medal, a 2023 Pushcart Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a RHINO Poetry editor’s prize, a Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award, and the San Miguel de Allende Writer’s Conference Contest Poetry Award. Jamaica has also served as a teaching artist with Writers in the Schools-Seattle and Louder Than a Bomb-Great Plains (an affiliate of Nebraska Writers Collective). Her writing has been supported by Aspen Words, Storyknife, Hedgebrook, Furious Flower, and the Jack Straw Writers program. Jamaica has a PhD from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in English with a focus on poetry and Women’s and Gender Studies, and she is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Writing at Ithaca College in New York.