J. P. Howard

A poet, educator, literary activist, curator, and sitting judge in NYC. JP’s debut poetry collection, SAY/MIRROR was a Lambda Literary finalist. She is also the author of bury your love poems here, Praise This Complicated Herstory: Legacy, Healing & Revolutionary Poems and co-editor of Sinister Wisdom Journal Black Lesbians--We Are the Revolution! JP has received fellowships and/or grants from Cave Canem, VONA, Lambda Literary Foundation, and Brooklyn Arts Council. She curates Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon. JP’s poetry is widely anthologized and her poetry and/or essays have been featured in POETRY Magazine, The New York Times, The Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series and elsewhere. JP is a general Poetry Editor for Women's Studies Quarterly and Editor-At-Large of Mom Egg Review VOX online. Visit her site.