Joey De Jesus

Joey De Jesus is an American writer, performer, community activist, and political candidate.

Their work includes the poetry collection NOCT: The Threshold of Madness, which was a selection of the 2019 Atlas Review chapbook contest, and the poetry collection HOAX, forthcoming from The Operating System in 2020. They have received numerous awards and fellowships for their work, including a 2020 ArtFP grant from BRIC Arts Media, and a 2017 New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship.

De Jesus is a Democrat in New York City and former candidate for New York State Assembly District 38.

De Jesus grew up in to a working-class family in Soundview, New York, and as a child attended Ethical Culture Fieldston School. After graduating from Oberlin College, De Jesus went on to earn two master's degrees in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College and performance studies from New York University.

De Jesus's poems have been published widely, including in The Brooklyn Rail, Drunken Boat, The Academy of American Poets, Guernica, Brooklyn Magazine, and elsewhere.

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