JC Reilly

Pushcart-nominated JC Reilly is the author of four poetry collections, La Petite Mort (2010), What Magick May Not Alter (2020), Daughter of the Wheel and Moon (2021), and Amo e Canto (2022), winner of the Sow’s Ear Chapbook Prize (2020). Additionally, she is a quarter collaborator on the collection On Occasion: Four Poets, One Year (2014). She has served as the Managing Editor of the international print poetry journal, Atlanta Review, since 2016. She has won grants and prizes from the Shreveport Regional Arts Council, Georgia Poetry Society, National Federation of Poetry Societies, and was a Georgia Tech Writing Fellow for 2021-2022 academic year. She has also participated in residencies with the Southampton Writer’s Conference (2018) and Rockvale Writer’s Colony (2021). Her poetry focuses on women’s issues, women’s ways of knowing, eco-feminism, family, regionalism, immigration, and domestic violence. She lives in Marietta, GA, but calls Shreveport, LA home.