Jessica Patapoff
Jessica Patapoff received her MFA in poetry from Cal State University Long Beach in 2011. She has worked in international sales for the past 10 years and recently taught a series of writing workshops at The LGBT Center in Long Beach, CA where she lives. Her work has appeared in Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Verdad and Pop Art: An Anthology of Southern California Poets. Besides poetry, Jessica loves everything about Italian culture, traveling and accents. Although she is a native Californian, she considers herself a Roman at heart.