Jess Burnquist earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Arizona State University and a certificate in nonprofit management from Oregon State University. She currently serves as the Executive Director of the Channel Islands Park Foundation. Prior to this role, she was the Vice President of Impact Education at Creative Visions and previously taught high school English in the Phoenix metropolitan area.
Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Time, NPR, Sundress, Persona, Natural Bridge, Ms. Magazine, and various online and print journals. She received the Joan Frazier Memorial Award for the Arts at ASU and has been honored with a Sylvan Silver Apple Award. She and her husband, new empty-nesters, reside in Southern California. Her poetry chapbook, You May Feel Your Way Past Me, is available from Dancing Girl Press.
"To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind." ― Pearl S. Buck
Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Time, NPR, Sundress, Persona, Natural Bridge, Ms. Magazine, and various online and print journals. She received the Joan Frazier Memorial Award for the Arts at ASU and has been honored with a Sylvan Silver Apple Award. She and her husband, new empty-nesters, reside in Southern California. Her poetry chapbook, You May Feel Your Way Past Me, is available from Dancing Girl Press.
"To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind." ― Pearl S. Buck