Jessica Lanay

Author: Jessica Lanay

Jessica Lanay is a poet and short story writer originally from the Florida Keys. She is interested in writing towards the incalculable nature of human emotions, psychology, and metaphysical dilemmas. Currently, she is pursuing her MFA in Poetry at the University of Pittsburgh and works at the Center for African American Poetry And Poetics. Her work can be found in Salt Hill Journal, Tahoma Literary Review, Sugar House Review, and others. She is excited to have her work featured in The Dr. T.J. Eckleburg Review, as she has been a fan for quite some time. Read more at lanay.me.

I Am Not Antigone: Notes on Losing My Brother

“But he is mine. And yours. Like it or not, he’s our brother. They’ll never catch me betraying him.” —Antigone. My brother Mike died while incarcerated in Jacksonville, Florida on December 23, 2021. He was found in his cell, alone, at 3:24pm ... Read More

Essays / Jessica Lanay

Drawing Lesson #2

by Jessica Lanay Let's avoid the metaphor where the page is the universe, and I am God, and the graphite to the white paper is some kind of explosion.... Jessica Lanay is a poet and short story writer originally from the Florida Keys. She is interested in writing towards the ... Read More

Poetry / Jessica Lanay