Jessy Randall

LATEST
Wordle poems in Pebbles
Mrs. Magalina Hoopensteimer in Strange Horizons

BOOKS
You Love Libraries / When All the Books Are Gone, with Jac Batey. Future Fantasteek #23, July 2025.
The Path of Most Resistance: Poems on Women in Science, Gold SF, 2025. Women in STEM project
Mathematics for Ladies: Poems on Women in Science, Gold SF, 2022. 
How to Tell If You Are Human: Diagram PoemsPleiades Press, 2018.
Suicide Hotline Hold Music: PoemsRed Hen Press, 2016.
There Was an Old Woman: PoemsUnicorn Press, 2015.
Interruptions: Collaborative Poems, with Daniel M. Shapiro, Pecan Grove Press, 2011.
Injecting Dreams into Cows: Poems, Red Hen Press, 2012.
The Wandora Unit: A Novel, Ghost Road Press, 2009.
A Day in Boyland: Poems, Ghost Road Press, 2007.

SCIENCE FICTION (selected)
asimovs Heartbeat of the Universe Analog: Hertha Ayrton with online interview, First Scientist, more
Asimov’s: A Different Kind of Stupid, I Have a Remote, The Mirror Speaks, Annie Jump Cannon,Helen Taussig, more
Mythic Delirium: Maybe a Witch Lives There
Nature: ‘If I Could Travel in Time’ by Zed 5755; German translation in Spektrum
Scientific American: Elizabeth Agassiz
Strange HorizonsCassini’s Mini-Packets HomeFood Diary of Gark the Troll, more

AND ALSO
Brain, Child: Breastfeeding Tips from the Experts
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Everyone’s Hair in Middle School, New Pay-Per-View Channels, Mundane Dreams, and What the People Who Used to Live in My House Apparently Said to Each Other Before Selling It to Me
Wizard Words: The Literary, Latin, and Lexical Origins of Harry Potter’s Vocabulary, in Verbatim: The Language Quarterly, Spring 2001. Full article. Follow-up article, Historifans, February 2023.
Guest editor, Snakeskin, fatherhoodmotherhooddeadly sinsfairy taleslibraries,the alphabetschoolcollaborationstoysworkfoodfound poemspoetry comicsmonstersfriendshipnumbers/mathematicscryptozoologymusic, and science fiction.

Interviews in AnalogCatalystThe Colorado PoetE-WordsFolded Word PressHairstreak ButterflyInterstellar Flight MagazinePoemeleonMurder Your DarlingsEscape into Life, and Little Myths

visual poetry | netcessary lit | women in STEM | readings | Colorado Poets Center | Poetry Foundation

contact me: jessyrandall@yahoo.com