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READING: Jessica Nirvana Ram
November 19 @ 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm EST
Join us as we celebrate Jessica Nirvana Ram and her new book, Earthly Gods.
Earthly Gods is a collection written by an Indo-Guyanese, first generation, daughter of immigrants who is grappling with the expectations of the world around her. The poems explore expectations surrounding inheritance, mental health, sexuality, motherhood, romantic and platonic relationships, and more. At its heart, this collection is a coming of age narrative, one where the speaker has to find out who she wants to be when faced with who everyone around her wants her to be.
Jessica Nirvana Ram is equal parts poet, essayist, educator, editor, and eyeliner enthusiast. She occasionally moonlights as a fiction writer. She earned her MFA in poetry from the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where she was also a Graduate Teaching Assistant. Jessica was awarded the Shannon Morton Fellowship in June 2020 from her department for an outstanding first year in the program as well as the Robert H Byington Leadership Fellow award at the close of her second year. Her poem “i am unfit to raise daughters” was one of the winners of the 2020 AWP Intro Journals Project.
Over the years Jessica has called Queens, New York, Royersford, Pennsylvania, and Wilmington, North Carolina home. She is currently living in Lewisburg, PA. She is a first generation Indo-Guyanese, daughter of immigrants. Her work is often about inheritance, expectations, and radical self love, among other things. Jessica received her BA in Creative Writing from Susquehanna University in 2018.
Jessica’s debut poetry collection EARTHLY GODS is forthcoming from Variant Literature in September 24
