Born: 1990 (circa), United States
Died: NA
Country most active: United States
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Jamaica Baldwin hails from Santa Cruz, California, by way of Seattle. Her poetry has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Prairie Schooner, Guernica, Hayden’s Ferry, the Adroit Journal, the Missouri Review, and TriQuarterly, among others. She was the 2019 winner of the San Miguel de Allende Writers Conference Contest in Poetry and a 2020 Tupelo Press Berkshire Prize Runner Up. Her work has been supported by Hedgebrook, Furious Flower, and the Jack Straw Writers Program. Baldwin holds an MFA from Pacific University Oregon and currently lives in Lincoln, Nebraska, where she is pursuing her PhD in creative writing at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln.