Jessica Lawrence

Terrible Little Stars Jessica Lawrence

Jessica Wiseman Lawrence's verse encompasses an unflinching glimpse into bleak realities while wrapped in tantalizing imagery and glimmering with nuanced hope. Her poems are "trees edged with time" - they stand proud in their stark display of the decaying aspects of life. Reverberating through her verse is a sense of utter humaneness, where she mines a difficult past in order to create an empathetic alignment with the present. These poems are gently quaking with an elegant rage. -Alison Ross, Editor Clockwise Cat Jessica Wiseman Lawrence grew up on a farm in rural central Virginia then studied creative writing at Longwood University. Her recent published work is in Stoneboat, Clockwise Cat, Acumen, Cease Cows, and Yellow Chair Review's print anthology.