Jessica Doe, PhD is a multi-award winning Aniyunwiya interdisciplinary poet and artist. As a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, space, place, and de-colonization are the driving forces behind her work, which includes several books and exhibitions. Her doctoral work addressed the meeting point of eating disorders and female poetics with an emphasis on Indigenous literature and sovereign medicine. She recently returned from India where she was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Bengaluru and curated a poetry anthology in the colonizer’s tongue.
Her installation “The Red C[h]airn Project,” is currently on display at the Ucross Gallery in Wyoming and was one of four pieces to reopen the renovated gallery. She has upcoming exhibitions at the Walters Cultural Center (Hillsboro, Oregon) and Kala Art Gallery (Berkeley). Her poetry collection that Indigenizes the tarot deck, [sp]RED, is slated to release in 2024 by Red Planet Books.
Jessica has received several writer-in-residencies around the world which were pivotal in supporting the creation of 15 books during her career, such as the Hosking Houses Trust residency with an appointment at The Shakespeare Birthplace (Stratford-Upon-Avon, UK) and the Acequia Madre House post (located on the occupied lands typically called "Santa Fe, New Mexico" today). Jessica’s books have received myriad accolades such as the Cultural Awareness Book of the Year (2021) award from the Human Relations Indie Book Awards for The Wrong Kind of Indian and the 2021 American Book Fest gold award in Urban Poetry for Selected Poems: 2000–2020.
