Jessica Hincapié is a poet from South Florida. She received her MFA in Poetry from The University of Texas (2018), where she won the Michael Adams Prize in Poetry. She also served as Bat City Review’s first Online Content and Web Editor.

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Currently she is the Programming Director for The Writing Barn, a writing retreat space in South Austin, that offers MFA level classes in multiple creative genres, including children's lit, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and more. She is an experienced teacher and workshop facilitator to adults and youth from around the world.

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Her debut poetry collection Bloomer won the Louise Bogan Award for Artistic Merit and Excellence (Trio House Press, 2022). She is the winner of RHINO Poetry’s 2024 Founder’s Prize and her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, finalist for Radar Poetry's 2020 Coniston Prize judged by Ada Limón, as well as a recipient of a 2022 Cuttyhunk Writers’ Residency. She has work out in numerous publications, including Denver Quarterly, Narrative Magazine, Gulf Coast, Sonora Review, Indiana Review and many others.

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Born in the UK, raised in South Florida, and now a long-time Austinite in Texas, Jessica’s work explores her Latinx identity and familial history as well as embraces the Southern Gothic. Her poems explore themes of the uncanny and peculiar, the artistic urge toward meaning making, spirituality and science, and more.