Jasmine Respress

Jasmine Respress

Jasmine Respess is a Florida native who writes about the intersections of her black Southern and Caribbean identities. Respess spent her undergrad career as a journalist, so she utilizes interviews of family members and research in much of her work. The tradition of magical realism has inspired her, and she explores folktales and lore in her poems and nonfiction pieces.

Respess earned an MFA in Poetry from The New School, NY. She currently lives in Coral Gables, Florida, with her two dogs and is an editor and marketing analyst at Mango Publishing Group.