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Jasmine Dreame Wagner is an American writer and multimedia artist. They are the author of the full-length collections On a Clear Day (Ahsahta Press, 2017) and Rings, winner of the 2014 Kelsey Street Press FIRSTS! Prize. Their chapbooks include The Stag (Dancing Girl Press, 2017); Ask (Slope Editions, 2016); Seven Sunsets, published in a split edition with Melanie Sweeney’s Birds as Leaves (The Lettered Streets Press, 2015); True Crime (NAP, 2014); Rewilding (Ahsahta Press, 2013), winner of the 2012 Ahsahta Press Chapbook Contest; and Listening for Earthquakes (Caketrain, 2012) runner-up in the Caketrain Chapbook Contest.

Wagner’s writing has been published in journals such as the Beloit Poetry Journal, the Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Guernica, Fence, Hyperallergic, Joyland, the Minnesota Review, and Sycamore Review. Their writing has been included in the anthologies Hit Points: An Anthology of Video Game Poetry (Broken Sleep Books, 2021), Swaddled With Ease (Bermuda Triangle Press, 2019), and The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral (Ahsahta Press, 2012). Wagner also regularly covers arts and culture for BOMB Magazine.

Their interdisciplinary work has been presented and screened at the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology; the New Ohio Theatre in New York; The Wilbury Theatre Group; The Poetry Project; BilbaoArte in Bilbao, Spain; VASTLAB Experimental in Los Angeles; the Boden International Film Festival in Sweden; and New Faces New Voices in New York.

The recipient of an artist fellowship from the Connecticut Office of the Arts, Wagner has been awarded two emergency grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. They were also awarded fellowships and residencies from Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, The Lighthouse Works, Marble House Project, the Millay Colony for the Arts, Villa Barr Art Park, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA), and The Wassaic Project.

In 2019, they were awarded a Woodberry Poetry Room Creative Grant from Harvard University to create new works drawing from the Woodberry Poetry Room’s archives.