S1 Ep 05: Jessica Piazza (Obsession)

The Lit Fantastic Podcast

Jessica Piazza is the author of three poetry collections: Interrobang (Red Hen Press, 2013), the chapbook This is not a sky (Black Lawrence Press, 2014) and Obliterations (with Heather Aimee O'Neill (Red Hen Press, 2016). Interrobang won the 2011 To the Lighthouse Prize from A Room of Her Own Foundation and the 2013 Balcones Prize from the Balcones Poetry Center in Austin, TX. ​Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Jessica now lives in Los Angeles where she teaches Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Southern California and poetry in the online MFA program at the University of Arkansas at Monticello, as well as moderating book clubs for Literary Affairs, a full service book club and literary event company in Beverly Hills. When she isn't teaching, writing or facilitating book clubs in Los Angeles, she curates the site Poetry Has Value, where conversations about poetry, money and worth abound. http://www.jessicapiazza.com --- Host - Neil Aiken Producer - Jenna Yokoyama Music “Waxing and Waning” by Robin Crutchfield “Scattered” by Ketsa