Jenna Goldsmith is a poet, writer and teacher based in Illinois. She is the author of four poetry chapbooks, including "CRUSH," winner of the 2022 Baltic Writing Residency Chapbook Contest, and "TITLE NINE," which was published by Press 254, the teaching press of Illinois State University. Her writing has been featured in numerous journals including New Delta Review, South Carolina Review, and Cleveland Review of Books, and her full-length poetry collection is forthcoming from Cornerstone Press/University of Wisconsin Stevens Point. She is an associate editor for Spoon River Poetry Review and the City Poet Laureate of Rockford, Illinois, where she resides.