Jazmin Witherspoon is an Appalachian writer and poet whose work has appeared in Ghost City Review, Cacti Fur, Callaloo, and other journals. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from the University of Kentucky, where she was a two-time Nikky Finney Fellow (2022, 2023) and the 2023 winner of the KLP Broadside Poetry Contest. Jazmin has been a writer-in-residence at Sundress Publications (Fall 2024) and the Atlantic Center for the Arts (Spring 2024). When she’s not writing, she enjoys handweaving, making pottery, and spending time with her elderly cat, Sasha.