Jess Challis

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Jess Challis

Jess ChallisJess ChallisJess Challis
  • Home
  • About Me
  • Poetry
  • Papermaking
  • Prose
  • Color
  • Black and White
  • Pick-Me-Up
  • Contact

A LITTLE MORE About me

POETRY PUBLICATIONS

  • 2024 Body of Work: A She Said Anthology, "In the Garden", Summer 2024
  • Happy Magpie Queer Art and Poetry Exhibition, “Yachats”, Summer 2024
  • Happy Magpie Queer Art and Poetry Exhibition, “Ghazal for Katrina”, Summer 2024
  • Flora/Fauna Ecopoetry Anthology, "The Swell", Spring 2024 
  • Flora/Fauna Ecopoetry Anthology, "Brookings", Spring 2024 
  • Touchstones: Journal of Literature and Art, “Flying”, Fall 2023
  • Touchstones: Journal of Literature and Art, “The Sea Lion Caves”, Fall 2023
  • 2023 We Want to Tell You: Women's Voices in Utah Anthology, “Portrait of Us,” Summer 2023
  • Beyond Queer Words, “Portrait of Us”, Fall 2022
  • Touchstones: Journal of Literature and Art, “Yachats”, Fall 2021
  • Touchstones: Journal of Literature and Art, “Coronavirus Dreams”, Fall 2021
  • Touchstones: Journal of Literature and Art, “Portrait of Us”, Fall 2021
  • Touchstones: Journal of Literature and Art, “Echo”, Fall 2019 
  • Touchstones: Journal of Literature and Art, “electroconvulsive therapy”, Fall 2019
  • Touchstones: Journal of Literature and Art, “Latch and Key”, Fall 2005 
  • Touchstones: Journal of Literature and Art, “Ghazal for Katrina”, Fall 2005

ART PUBLICATIONS/EXHIBITIONS

  • Salt Lake City Library Solo Show, Photography and Digital Art, Spring 2025 (forthcoming)
  • 2024 Body of Work: A She Said Anthology, "Filter", Photography, Summer 2024 
  • 2024 Body of Work: A She Said Anthology, "Four I's", Photography, Summer 2024 
  • 2024 Body of Work: A She Said Anthology, "Inward", Photography, Summer 2024 
  • Flora/Fauna Ecopoetry Anthology, "Shadow People", Photography, Spring 2024
  • Ponder Review, "Buddha and the Pink Umbrella", Photography, Winter 2023
  • Ponder Review, "Lantern Festival in the Rain", Photography, Winter 2023
  • Light Space Time “All Women” Art Exhibition, “Shadow Dreams”, Photography, Winter 2023
  • Light Space Time “All Women” Art Exhibition, “Four Faces of Childhood”, Watercolor and Digital, Winter 2023
  • Light Space Time "Nature" Art Exhibition, "Sunflowers at Dusk", Photography, Winter 2023
  • Light Space Time “Patterns” Art Exhibition, “Last Light of Summer”, Photography and Digital, Fall 2023
  • Light Space Time “Landscapes” Art Exhibition, “Twilight at Sugar House Park”, Photography and Digital, Fall 2023
  • 2023 We Want to Tell You: Women's Voices in Utah Anthology, “Christine in Shadow”, Watercolor, Summer 2023
  • Touchstones: Journal of Literature and Art, “Christine in Shadow”, Watercolor, Fall 2019

MULTIMEDIA POETRY

  • Lake as Legacy/Lake as Future Anthology, “Last Family Photos at the Great Salt Lake”, Photography and Poetry Collage, Summer 2024 (forthcoming) 
  • Lake as Legacy/Lake as Future Anthology, “Spiral”, Photography and Poetry Collage, Summer 2024 (forthcoming) 
  • 2024 Body of Work: A She Said Anthology, “Visiting Alcatraz with my Teenager”, Photography and Poetry Collage, Summer 2024 
  • Happy Magpie Queer Art and Poetry Exhibition, “Portrait of Us”, Photography and Poetry Collage, Summer 2024  
  • Happy Magpie Queer Art and Poetry Exhibition, “Echo”, Photography and Poetry, Summer 2024
  • Open Shutter Press, "Five Lanes Closed", Digital Art and Poetry Collage, Spring 2024
  • Slippery Elm Literary Journal, "I asked to go to Classic Fun Center for my first Soberversary", Video Poem, Winter 2023

Video Poetry and Hybrid ARt

PROSE PUBLICATIONS

  • The Banyan Review, "Among the Rock Art", Flash Fiction, 2024 (forthcoming)
  • 2023 We Want to Tell You: Women's Voices in Utah Anthology, “Solo”, Creative Nonfiction, Summer 2023
  • Touchstones: Journal of Literature and Art, “Rosalyn”, Horror Short Story, Spring 2020
  • Touchstones: Journal of Literature and Art, “Solo”, Spring 2020

AWARDS/HONORS

  • Solo art and creative writing exhibition at the Salt Lake City Library, including my photography, handmade paper art, and poetry (forthcoming Spring 2025). 
  • Awarded 2024-25 Wick R. Miller Scholarship through the American West Center at the University of Utah for studies of indigenous peoples.
  • First place in Fall 2019 Touchstones: Journal of Literature and Art poetry contest, as judged by Michael Lavers.
  • Second place in the Slippery Elm Literary Journal 2023 Deanna Tulley Multimedia Contest.
  • Second place in the Creative Writing category in Utah Valley University 2021 Showcase.
  • Third place in Fall 2023 Touchstones: Journal of Literature and Art poetry contest, as judged by Darlene Young.
  • Honorable Mention for photography in Light Space Time 2023 “All Women” Art Exhibition.
  • Selected for poetry reading and art exhibition at the 2024 Utah Arts Festival.
  • Photography & Digital Special Recognition Artist Award in Light Space Time 2023 “Landscapes”, “Patterns”, “Nature” and “All Women” Art Exhibitions.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

  • Organized and facilitated 2023 David R. Keller Environmental Ethics Symposium interactive poetry and art installation.
  • Creative Writing/Book Arts MFA student at the University of Utah.
  • Earned a bachelor's degree in English Creative Writing from Utah Valley University.
  • Intermediate Writing Instructor at the University of Utah.
  • Associate Chapbook Editor for Quarterly West literary journal.
  • Reader for the 2024 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize.
  • Founded Lakeshore Art Studio which teaches art classes and events to children, youth and adults and contributes generously to the community through monetary and supply donations to local schools and charities.
  • Contributed to, quoted in, and edited scholarly article “Theories of Affect and the Call for Practicality: A Response to Jenny Edbauer” authored by Dr. Christa Albrecht-Crane and published in JAC.

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