Jesse Lee Kercheval is a writer, poet, artist, and translator, specializing in Uruguayan poetry.  Her latest books are the graphic memoir, French Girl, (Fieldmouse Press, 2024) and poetry collections I Want To Tell You (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023) and Un pez dorado no te sirve para nada (Editorial Yaugarú, Uruguay, 2023). Her memoir, Space, was the winner of the Alex Award form the American Library Association. Her translations include Love Poems by Idea Vilariño and The Invisible Bridge: Selected Poems Circe Maia, for which she awarded an NEA in Translation, both from the University of Pittsburgh Press. She is the Zona Gale Professor Emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Editor of the Wisconsin Poetry Series at the University of Wisconsin Press. www.jlkercheval.com

Website: www.jlkercheval.com

Twitter Username: @JesseLKercheval

Employment

• Zona Gale Professor Emerita of English at University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Series Editor, Wisconsin Poetry Series at University of Wisconsin Press

Degrees

• Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from University of Iowa (May 1986)

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Creative nonfiction, Poetry