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.

Pretty Punks: Poems & Plays (formerly Yeats Fever), is forthcoming. Previous collections include The Bovine Huff (Track and Field Studios, 2021) and Our Fairy Diary. Their research has been published as chapbooks for the following theatrical productions: The Sarcoma Cycle (2024), Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions: A Homo-Turgy (2024), and Perforated Play (2022).