Jay Aquinas Thompson

Jay Aquinas Thompson (he/they) is a poet, essayist, and teacher with recent or forthcoming work in Pacifica Literary Review, FIVES, Passages North, Jubilat, Tammy, COAST | NoCOAST, Full Stop, and Poetry Northwest, where they're a contributing editor. They're a 2021 Tin House Writers' Workshop alum and have been awarded grants and fellowships from the Community of Writers, the Sustainable Arts Foundation, and King County 4Culture. They live with their child in Washington state, where they teach creative writing to incarcerated women and public school students.