Jessica Covil-Manset is a writer and communicator living in Durham, NC, with her husband, daughter, and cat. She holds a BA in English and Spanish from the University of Chicago and a PhD in English from Duke University. Her dissertation, "Toward a Different Way of Knowing/Being/Speaking: Poetic Openings and Feminist Praxis in Contemporary Works," is freely available online. Her poetry explores gender, relationships, trauma, self-discovery, and joy. She has been twice nominated for Best of the Net, with poems appearing in SWWIM Every Day, Rise Up Review, Whale Road Review, and other journals. A long-time member of Raleigh's Tongue & Groove Open Mic, she believes in the power of the spoken word and shared space, just as she relishes curling up with a good book. To Sing You, and to Shout is her debut collection.