Jess Cole

Writing about place and identity

Selected Work

A novel written as a doctoral dissertation — a long story about home, told from the far side of leaving it.

Published articles and book chapters — on writing, teaching, and the way language carries identity across borders.

Pushcart-nominated poems — compressed, image-driven, and rooted in specific rooms and streets.

Published short stories about people caught between the places that made them and the places they've landed.