Jess Rizkallah

Jess Rizkallah is a Lebanese American writer, illustrator, spoken-word poet, and editor from Boston, Massachusetts. Her debut poetry collection, the magic my body becomes (The University of Arkansas Press, 2017), won the 2017 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. She is the founding editor of Pizza Pi Press. 

Rizkallah has been a Kundiman Fellow, a 2019 Poetry Foundation Incubator Fellow, and a 2022 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellow, and a 2019 artist in residence at the Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies, NC State. She earned an MFA in poetry from New York University and a BA from Lesley University.