Jenna Pashley Smith is a writer and poet from the Midwestern United States. Her essays, short stories, and poems have appeared in Kaleidoscope, The Annals of Internal Medicine, Eastern Iowa Review, The Binnacle and others. She is currently at work on a young-adult novel in verse. When not immersed in a book or a poem, Jenna raises chickens and children in the suburbs of Houston, Texas, and dabbles in myriad artistic endeavours.