Jessica Slentz

Jessica hails from the lovely city of Rochester, NY, where she grew up, got her BA at Nazareth College in English, Communications and Religious Studies. She is currently completing a MA in Creative Writing from Kingston University in London.

She is currently working on a poetry manuscript and her first novel, while moonlighting as a content writer for a coffee import company, which allows her not only a regular paycheck, but access to her recommended daily allowance of first-class espresso.

Jessica does not see writing as separate from "the fine arts" as some may, but rather views all art, all creation, as one symbiotic song. She sees all art as performance, whether that be a painting or a dance, a poem or a play. Performance in the sense that art is an interactive experience between the creator and the observer - a communication, not merely a decoration. She is a fledgling scholar of the significance of oral tradition in society, and the connection between language, performance and art in postmodern American poetry. She also seeks to explore the relationship of philosophy and cultural mythology to contemporary narratives, both through extensive analysis of the tradition and by her own creative work.