Jo Bear

Jo, a white person with short brown hair, is standing in front of the Atlantic Ocean. They are standing on the Giant's Causeway and the rocks below their feet are hexagonal basalt.

Poet, Scholar, Performance-Maker, & Educator


Jo Bear (she/they) is a queer and disabled poet, educator, and scholar currently pursuing their MFA in poetry at North Carolina State University. They have an MA in Drama & Performance Studies from University College Dublin and are a Zoeglossia Fellow. Their poetry has previously been published or is forthcoming in Channel, West Branch, The South Carolina Review, Blue Earth Review, Poetry Ireland Review, ROPES Literary Journal, and elsewhere.