Protected: After Stumbling Upon Joseph Perry’s Medical Illustrations of Miscarriage (1834)
Jessica Purdy is the author of six books of poetry including Lung Hours, chosen by Marsha de la O as a winner of Gunpowder Press’ Dryden-Vreeland Book Prize. Her chapbook The Adorable Knife: Poems based on The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death (Grey Book Press) received the NH Writers’ Project People’s Choice Award. Her next book Oneironaut is forthcoming in 2027 from White Stag. Her poems have appeared in Thimble, Sixth Finch, Action, Spectacle, About Place, On the Seawall, Radar, Gone Lawn, and elsewhere. She lives in New Hampshire. Insta + FB: jessica.purdy.735