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 is a poet, scholar, and educator with an MFA in poetry from North Carolina State University and an MA in Drama and Performance Studies from University College Dublin. They are a 2024 Pushcart Prize nominee and a 2023 Zoeglossia Fellow. Their poems appear or are forthcoming in ONLY POEMS, The Adroit Journal, Amsterdam Review, The Offing, Sho Poetry Journal, Channel, West Branch, The South Carolina Review, Poetry Ireland Review, and elsewhere.