About the Poet
Jade Hurter is a poet living in New Orleans, where she teaches composition at the University of New Orleans, where she received her MFA in Creative Writing earlier this year. Her first collection, the chapbook Slut Songs, is forthcoming from Hyacinth Girl Press in 2017. She was a finalist in the 2016 Tennessee Williams Poetry Contest, judged by Yusef Komunyakaa, and her recent work has appeared in The Double Dealer, Tinderbox, Animal Literary Magazine, Quaint, Thank You for Swallowing, Gingerbread House, and New South, where she was a finalist in the 2015 poetry competition.
At the University of New Orleans, she works with the Scholastic Writing Awards of Southeast Louisiana. Last year she worked as an editorial associate for the Faulkner Society and blogged for Faulkner House Books on Facebook, as well as writing book reviews for Faulkner House Books at faulknerhousebooks.com and for The Double Dealer, the on-line literary journal of the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society. Her work appears in the 2015-2016 edition of The Double Dealer.
Jade currently is working on a book of poems about a were-woman named Rey, a wolf who begins turning into a woman every full moon after inciting a curse by killing a forest demigod. She is guided in her journey by the centaur Chiron, who is perhaps a little too bloodthirsty for his own good. Jade is particularly interested in issues of hybridity, femininity, and those spaces where other worlds collide with our own.