Jo Bear

Jo, a white person with short brown hair, is standing in front of the Atlantic Ocean. They are standing on the Giant's Causeway and the rocks below their feet are hexagonal basalt.

Poet, Scholar, Performance-Maker, & Educator


Jo Bear is a queer and disabled poet, scholar, and educator with an MFA from North Carolina State University and an MA in Drama & Performance Studies from University College Dublin. A 2023 Zoeglossia Fellow, their poetry appears or is forthcoming in Amsterdam Review, The Offing, Sho Poetry Journal, Channel, West Branch, The South Carolina Review, Blue Earth Review, Poetry Ireland Review, ROPES Literary Journal, and elsewhere.