Jacqui Germain is a poet, journalist, and former labor and student organizer living and working in St. Louis, Missouri. Germain has received fellowships from the St. Louis Regional Arts Commission, Jack Jones Literary Arts, Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, and the Poetry Foundation’ s Emerging Poets Incubator. She is the author of Bittering the Wound, winner of the 2024 Kate Tufts Discovery Prize, and the chapbook, When the Ghosts Come Ashore. As a journalist, she has published original reporting, political commentary, and feature profiles in The Nation, The Guardian, VICE, and more. Most recently, Germain was selected to be the 2021-2022 Economic Security Project Fellow at Teen Vogue, covering issues of class and economic inequality at the intersections of race and gender.
