Education

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY —
MFA in Creative Writing - Poetry, 2020

Tufts University, Medford, MA —
BA in Sociology with a concentration in Social Inequalities & Social Change, 2015 

FELLOWSHIPS

Poets House Emerging Poets Fellow, 2018
Jack Jones Literary Arts Sylvia Rivera Fellow, 2019 

Publications

BOOKS

Deus Ex Nigrum (chapbook), Honeysuckle Press, 2020 

POEMS 

Indiana Review forthcoming
“she harvests herself” “not a suicide note” & “at 26, hugsare dangerous”

The Academy of American Poets July 2021
“where all, we flowers”

TriQuarterly June 2021
“Apocrypha: i exist in every world”

WASHINGTON SQUARE REVIEW May 2021
“honey all over”

The Academy of American Poets September 2020 “Certificate of Live Birth”

PINWHEEL May 2020
“blue” “Pink” & “wonderment & soft armament”

THE SLOWDOWN SHOW April 2020
“In Which Our Wants Are Worlds” (reprint)

THE SHADE JOURNAL August 2019
“On Earth, I Is, Will Be, Me”

PAPER DARTS May 2019
“For When You Are Weary”

THE IOWA REVIEW BLOG April 2019
“Instructions For The Moon”

POETRY DAILY January 2019
“In Which Our Wants Are Worlds” (reprint)

APOGEE November 2018
“Chromosome Death In A Blood Garden”

WATER September 2018
“Body” “Somewhere Queer” & “A New Story”

MUZZLE MAGAZINE June 2018
“For Grace, For Grave” & “In Which Our Wants AreWorlds”

YEMASSEE JOURNAL May 2018
“Rosenbergs’ Reprieve” “The Little Factory In My Head” “Wade Swim Walk” & “Her Appetite For Life” 

WUSGOOD? October & November 2016
“Brooklyn Mid-Fall" & "4-1-0"

Appearances, Readings, Performances (Selected) 

Royalties Reading Series | The Center for Fiction | 2.25.23 

Exquisites Reading Series | 10.6.22

A Black Trans Pride: The Premiere | Hi-Arts NYC | 8.14.21 

Apogee Broadsides Reading | 4.29.21

Five College Queer Gender & Sexuality Conference Reading & Q&A | Hampshire College 3.5.21

National Poetry Month Reading & Q&A | UC Berkeley 4.30.20*

Queer & Trans Literature Panel | Columbia University 4.17.20*

Dykes of the Universe Book Tour | NYC, Austin, LA - spring 2020*

Segue Reading Series | Jasmine Reid + Sun Yung Shin 2.22.20

Deus Ex Nigrum Launch Parties | Ithaca, NY & New York,NY - February 2020

When the Chant Comes Anniversary, Reading #2 | AAWW 9.13.19

Maracuyá Peach #1: Fruta Futures | 8.17.19 

TransVisionaries Presents: Poets & Writers | 7.8.19

Segue Reading Series | Jasmine Reid & Wendy Xu 12.1.18 

Soul Sister Revue | Summer Reading with Christina Gayton, Jason Koo, Jasmine Reid, Pamela Sneed 8.15.18

Nomad Reading Series | Vol. 7: Berggrun, Reid, Ray 7.14.18 

* cancelled due to Covid-19 Pandemic 

Press

Author Interview with Honeysuckle Press 

Danez Smith Book Review on The Week 

Related Work Experience 

WORKSHOP LEADER & ADVISOR

“Many-Handed Dreaming” a poetry workshop & salon centering Black writers of trans experience | University of Pittsburgh CAAPP 10.21.22 - 10.22.22

• Co-develop workshop theme, materials, & writing prompts on Black, trans embodiment & fulfillment
• Co-lead 8 participants through a two-day workshop & culminating poetry salon-style reading with Xan Phillips

“Blooming Queerly, Transly” a poetry workshop & reading | Cornell U. LGBT Resource Center & HAVEN 3.9.20

• Create & lead a poetry workshop on self-articulation by way of lyric & bodily possibility for queer & trans students
• Craft workshop materials: introduction, readings, prompts, & further-reading syllabus
• Read from debut poetry collection, Deus Ex Nigrum (Honeysuckle Press)
• Lead a Q&A with students
  

“Open by Riot Laughter” & “We Sweat Honeysuckle” Winter Tangerine, Winter 2017, Spring 2018 —

• Facilitate discussion between 4-5 poets in the above-listed online workshops for Trans/GNC writers & Queerwriters, respectively
• Provide feedback on work drafted during the workshop

VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Earth Time, Earth Building | Pratt Institute Fall 2022

• Craft course title, description, & materials for this poetry elective on place, time, & belonging
• Devise weekly, generative writing prompts for students to engage with & practice the assigned readings’ formal & conceptual conventions & inventions
• Lead once weekly a class of 6 BFA writing students through discussions of conceptual & craft elements in the assigned readings & each other’s poem-responses to the assigned prompts
• Guide & provide students with a framework for leading 1 in-class discussion each throughout the semester
• Hold office hours & meet regularly with students throughout the semester 

Writers Studio II | Pratt Institute spring 2022 

• Create course materials spanning poetry, prose, essay, poetic prose, novel-in-verse, & poetic essay: syllabus, lesson plans, writing prompts, revision exercises 
•  Lead twice weekly a class of 6 first-year BFA students through course materials, craft discussions, & peer critiques of their own writing 
•  Situate politics & ethics within the craft of writing while familiarizing students with a range of the central formal and philosophical concerns of multiple genres 
• Provide detailed writing prompts for students to practice the formal techniques of the assigned texts, such that they acquire a richness of tools & practices towards acts of making feeling & form, full readerly experiences 
• Guide students through making a craft talk, situating their work in conversation with other writers 
• Hold writing conferences throughout the course, meeting at least twice with each student 

Writers Studio III | Pratt Institute fall 2021

• Create course materials spanning poetry & hybrid work: syllabus, writing prompts, revision exercises
• Lead twice weekly a class of 5 second-year BFA students through course materials, craft discussions, & peer critiques of their own writing
• Situate politics & ethics within poetic craft while familiarizing students with some of the central formal and philosophical concerns of poetry
• Provide detailed writing prompts for students to practice the formal techniques of the assigned texts, such that they acquire a richness of tools & practices towards acts of making feeling & form.
• Hold writing conferences throughout the course, meeting at least twice with each student 

INSTRUCTOR 

“Freshman Writing Seminar: Word & Image/Feeling Race, Sexuality, & Gender” | Cornell U. fall 2018 -  spring 2022

• Create course materials: syllabus, assignment prompts, revision exercises, in-class writing prompts
• Lead twice weekly a class of 17 students through course materials, class discussion, & workshops of their own writing
• Hold student conferences throughout the course, meeting at least twice with each student
• Guide students through poetry & critical theory centered considerations of the physicality of language, identity as an embodied experience, & the metabolism of world into word
• Guide students to generate writing with attention to the interplay of their identities & sensate experiences, as well as the ethics & politics therein 

“Creative Writing” | Cornell U. fall 2020 - spring 2022

• Create course materials spanning poetry, fiction, & hybrid work: syllabus, writing prompts, revision exercises
• Lead twice weekly a class of 17 students through course materials, craft discussion, & small-group workshops of their own writing
• Situate politics & ethics within the craft of writing
• Boost students’ metabolism of the world by having them keep a written journal
• Provide detailed writing prompts for students to practice the formal techniques of the assigned texts
• Hold writing conferences throughout the course, meeting at least twice with each student 

SENIOR EDITOR

YouthComm Magazine | Youth Communication summer 2022 - present

• Meet one-on-one twice weekly with 6-8 high-school-aged writers per trimester to develop and publish their personal and reported stories
• Edit and fact check each story for style, clarity, grammar, & spelling
• Develop curriculum each 6-week summer writing workshops
• Pitch published stories for reprint in national publications such as The Nation & Chalkbeat

ORGANIZER

margin margin magic, a poetry-centered student group for women & non-binary femmes of color

• Co-found: draft mission, secure funding & meeting spaces, schedule meetings, solicit new membership
• Organize bi-weekly meetings of 12 members
• Invite & coordinate with guest lecturers, including Muriel Leung, Aracelis Girmay, & Jenny Zhang
• Lead discussion on books by the above-listed authors

CONTACT

jasminerinbloom@gmail.com