Jess Silfa

Jess Silfa is a writer and poet from the South Bronx. They are currently an MFA student at Vanderbilt University and are working on their first novel about a tight-knit immigrant community rocked by the war on drugs. Jess has received a Displaced Artist Fellowship from Vermont Studio Center, a grant from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and currently serves as President of the Disabled and D/deaf Writers Caucus.