Jesse Curran is a poet, essayist, scholar, and teacher who lives in Northport, NY. Her essays and poems have appeared in dozens of literary journals including After the Art, Literary Mama, About Place, and The Denver Quarterly. She is the author of a lyric novel, A Handful of Earth (Press Pause Press, 2025) and two chapbooks of poetry (Finishing Line, 2019 and 2021). She is the 2025 Long Island Poet of the Year and Assistant Professor in the Department of English at SUNY Old Westbury.