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 Foglifter, ONLY POEMS, The Adroit Journal, The Offing, West Branch, The South Carolina Review, Poetry Ireland Review, and elsewhere.