“The Beach at Big Salt” by Jessica Goodfellow, from A Pilgrim’s Guide to Chaos in the Heartland, © Concrete Wolf http://concretewolf.com/index.html and posted here with permission.
JESSICA GOODFELLOW was awarded the Three Candles Press First Book Prize for her book The Insomniac’s Weather Report. Her poetry chapbook, A Pilgrim’s Guide to Chaos in the Heartland, won the Concrete Wolf Chapbook Competition. Jessica’s work has appeared in the anthology Best New Poets 2006 and multiple times on the website Verse Daily. Her poems have twice been featured on NPR’s “The Writer’s Almanac” hosted by Garrison Keillor. She is a recipient of the Chad Walsh Poetry Prize from the Beloit Poetry Journal. Jessica’s work has been honored with the Linda Julian Essay Award as well as the Sue Lile Inman Fiction Prize, both from the Emrys Foundation. A four-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Jessica lives in Japan with her husband and sons.
