Yessica Klein

Yessica Klein (she/her) is a Brazilian artist and writer. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from Kingston University (UK), and her writing and artwork have been featured in Banshee Lit, The Moth, Wet Grain Poetry, 3:AM, Magnum Photos, The Lighthouse Review, and more. She was shortlisted for the 2023 White Review Poetry Prize, the 2022 Aesthetica Creative Writing Award, and the 2017 Jane Martin Poetry Prize. Yessica was also highly commended at Amibt's 2022 Poetry Competition, 'Magick', and accepted into the Seamus Heaney Poetry Centre's 2023 summer school in Belfast, UK. She runs a newsletter called That Poetry Thing, focusing on writers' desks and creative habits, and she's also working on her first novel.