Jessica Roeder

Jessica Roeder is a 2025 McKnight Writer Fellow. Her stories, poems, and essays have appeared in magazines including Kenyon Review, Threepenny Review, American Poetry Review, and AGNI. She is the author of the prose chapbook Staircases Will Outnumber Us (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2017) and a forthcoming poetry chapbook, Trees Full of Walking (dancing girl press, 2026). She teaches writing and dance and works as a copyeditor and proofreader for book publishers. (Updated 04/2026)