Jessica Laser was born and raised in Chicago. She is the author of The Goner School, a finalist for the 2025 Griffin Prize; Planet Drill, winner of Futurepoem Books' inaugural Other Futures Award; and Sergei Kuzmich from All Sides. Her poems and interviews have recently appeared in The Drift, The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, and The Yale Review. She holds degrees from Brown University (BA), the Iowa Writers' Workshop (MFA), and the University of California, Berkeley (PhD). She lives in Los Angeles and teaches at Claremont McKenna College.