Bio
Jessica Mehta, PhD is a multi-award winning Aniyunwiya inter/multi/anti-disciplinary poet, artist, and scholar. As a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, space, place, Indigenization, and de-colonization are the driving forces behind her work, which includes several books and exhibitions. Her doctoral work addressed the meeting point of eating disorders and female poetics. During her post as a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Bengaluru, India, she curated a poetry anthology in the colonizer’s tongue. She is the current Bayard Rustin artist-in-residence in Manhattan, a 2023/24 Peace Studio Fellow, the Lead Poet-in-Residence at New York’s Kristine Mann Jung Library, and the forthcoming 2024 BigCi Environmental Award fellow in Australia.