Jessie McCarty is a cataloger and writer.

Their poetry, in English and Gaeilge, uses archival and taxonomy as memory tools. Their poems have been published in Sarka, The Minnesota Review, Charm School, The Documentarian, Don’t Submit Lit, Thick Press, and more. They write the newsletter Poetic Classifications on Substack.

Their full-length debut, Pretty Punks, is forthcoming with Magra Books in December 2025 (Pre-order here). Previous collections include The Bovine Huff (Track and Field Studios, 2021) and Our Fairy Diary (2023).

Jessie’s archive research has been published as chapbooks for several theatrical productions, including The Sarcoma Cycle (Logan Berry, 2024) and the Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions: A Homo-Turgy (Jack Bowes, 2024). They were nominated as Best New Poetry Book and Best New Poet in the Chicago Reader, 2022.

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