About
Jasmine Reid
Jasmine Reid is a twice trans poet of flowers. She is the author of Interlocutor Goddess, winner of the 2024 CAAPP Book Prize, selected by Aracelis Girmay, and Deus Ex Nigrum, winner of the 2018 Honeysuckle Press Chapbook Contest, selected by Danez Smith. An MFA graduate of Cornell University and recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem, Poets House, and Jack Jones Literary Arts, her work has been published or is forthcoming in Virginia Quarterly Review, Southern Indiana Review, Kenyon Review, The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, Indiana Review, Pinwheel, TriQuarterly, and Washington Square Review, among others. A Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominated poet, Jasmine was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, and is currently based in Brooklyn, New York, where she is a visiting assistant professor at Pratt Institute.