Jessie McCarty is a Southern, Irish-American writer in Chicago.

They have been published in The Minnesota Review, The Documentarian, Don’t Submit Lit, Thick Press, and more.

They write the newsletter Poetic Classifications on Substack.

Yeats Fever & Other Poems, is forthcoming in 2025. Previous collections include The Bovine Huff (Track and Field Studios, 2021) and Our Fairy Diary. Their experimental research has been published as chapbooks for the following theatrical productions: The Sarcoma Cycle, Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions: A Homo-Turgy, and Perforated Play.