About

Jasmine Neosh is a poet, fiction-writer and activist from Chicago, IL. She is the founding curator of several successful literary institutions, including the DIY arts collective the West Side School for the Desperate and Columbia College Chicago’s Silver Tongue Reading Series. She has performed with Windy City Story Slam and with a variety of independent shows in Chicago and elsewhere. Her short fiction and poetry has appeared previously in THE2NDHAND, decomp, Fiction at Work, and Columbia College Chicago’s annual flash fiction anthology, the Story Week Reader, among others.

Random shit from the Internet:

Audio/print poems published in the Dirty Napkin, a cool, aesthetically pleasing little magazine from the west

A list published by great multidisciplinary project from Seattle, Through This Window.

My flash fiction piece, “Retreat”, included in the 2008 Story Week Reader, found on Columbia College Chicago’s website

Chicago Tribune article featuring the Windy City Story Slam, in which I say some things about Chicago’s fiction scene

A piece I did for the Windy City Story Slam website

A poem that appeared in the May 2010 issue of decomP magazine

A story that appeared in THE2NDHAND in 2009.

A short-short story of mine appeared in Fiction at Work. Here is the link, if you feel like scrolling down through it. I suggest you do, it’s one of my favorites.