Jessi Jaraki is a library professional from Appalachian Kentucky. They graduated from the University of Kentucky with a bachelor’s in English, where they received a competitive Gaines Fellowship in the Humanities and completed a novel as a thesis project. Adopted from foster care at a young age, Jessi Jaraki has long been interested in questions of identity, belonging, and intergenerational trauma, which inform their work. Additionally, and of equal importance, they are a dancercise enthusiast.
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