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Jari Bradley (they/them) is a Black genderqueer poet and scholar from San Francisco, California, who currently holds the 2020–2021 First Wave Poetry Fellowship at UW–Madison. They have received fellowships and support from Callaloo, Cave Canem, Tin House, The Pittsburgh Foundation and The Heinz Endowments. Jari’s work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has been published/forthcoming in The Adroit Journal, Blood Orange Review (selected by judge Nikkey Finney), The Offing, Academy of American Poets (Poem-A-Day), Callaloo, Columbia Journal, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. Jari Bradley (MFA, University of Pittsburgh) is the current 2020–2021 First Wave Poetry Fellow at UW–Madison.