Day 5: "What Creature Will Hear My Prayer" – Jessica Pierce • Daily Advent: Meeting Fear

"Near misses." Jessica E. Pierce (she/her) is the author of Consider the Body, Winged. Winner of the 2024 Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize from CALYX, she has also been a two-time finalist for the Pablo Neruda Prize from Nimrod, a finalist for the New Ohio Review’s NORward Prize, and a finalist for the MVICW Poetry Contest, for which she received a Poet Fellowship. Jessica earned her Ed.M. from Harvard and works in a large school district in Oregon to create anti-racist alternatives to exclusionary discipline. Her expansive children and partner inspire her to embrace herself as a bisexual neurodivergent human committed to educational justice and creative community.   Join us every morning in Advent for Meeting Fear, an aural Advent calendar of daily reflections on fear and how it affects our relationship with God. Listen at Daily Advent or wherever you listen.