Jessica Kim is a high school senior from La Cañada, California. She is the 2021-22 Los Angeles County Youth Poet Laureate, and has been recognized by Animal Heart Press' Chapbook Contest for her book "L(EYE)GHT," published in April 2022. Her work has been recognized by YoungArts and Foyle Young Poets, and appears in POETRY Magazine, Frontier Poetry, and Adroit Journal among others. When she's not writing, she is an Editor-in-Chief for Polyphony Lit and enjoys working with an amazing group of editors.