Jessie McCarty is a Southern, Irish-American writer in Chicago. They have been published in Sarka, The Minnesota Review, The Documentarian, Don’t Submit Lit, Thick Press, and more. They write the newsletter Poetic Classifications on Substack.

Pretty Punks: Poems & Play (formerly Yeats Fever), is forthcoming with Magra Books in 2025. Previous collections include The Bovine Huff (Track and Field Studios, 2021) and Our Fairy Diary (2023).

Jessie’s research has been published as chapbooks for the following theatrical productions: The Sarcoma Cycle (Dr. by Logan Berry, 2024), Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions: A Homo-Turgy (2024), and Perforated Play (2022).