Jessica Winkler is a life-long resident of New Orleans finishing her MA in medieval literature and composition and rhetoric at the University of New Orleans. Writing poetry has always been her secret passion, and she received her first publication in a collection of middle-school poetry (which she will not tell you the name of for obvious reasons) at the age of ten. Her poem "Kitchens" won an honorable mention and publication in the Beverly Hopkins Memorial poetry contest in 2006 from the St. Louis Poetry Center. She uses her concentration in medieval literature as an excuse to take part in many mysterious and interesting activities, including (but not limited to) creating hand-made astrology charts.