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T. J. Jarrett is a writer and software developer in Nashville, Tennessee. Her recent work has been published or is forthcoming in African American Review, Boston Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Callaloo, DIAGRAM, Ninth Letter, Linebreak, Rattle, Southern Poetry Anthology, Third Coast, West Branch and others. She has earned scholarships from the Vermont Studio Center and the Colrain Manuscript Conference, was nominated for Best New Poets 2011 by Third Coast Magazine and her collection The Moon Looks Down and Laughs was selected as a finalist for the 2010 Tampa Review Prize for poetry.
Her debut collection Ain’t No Grave will be published with New Issues Press in the fall of 2013.
“[Her] poems query the world in a confessional yet measured voice. Jarrett is a software developer, but certainly doesn’t sound like one …” — Nashville Scene, Critic’s Pick, June 24, 2010
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