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Jessica Mehta

Jessica (Tyner) Mehta is a multi-award winning Aniyunwiya interdisciplinary author and artist. Born and raised in Oregon and a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, she is currently preparing for her Fulbright U.S. Scholar award in Bangalore, India. Jessica is the recipient of a 2021 GLEAN: Portland award, Regional Arts and Culture Council Make/Learn/Build award, and she is the upcoming poet in residence at Hugo House in Seattle. She had three books released in the past year, including When We Talk of Stolen Sisters (Not a Pipe Publishing), Selected Poems: 2000 – 2020 (Meadowlark Books and winner of the national annual Birdy Prize), and Antipodes (New Rivers Press). Jessica is completing her PhD in Literature at the University of Exeter (England) and currently serves as a post-graduate researcher at the largest Victorian Centre in England and is the first Native American to hold this position.
