Jesse Rice-Evans
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Jesse Rice-Evans is a doctoral student in rhetoric and writing studies (English) at the City University of New York Graduate Center. Her work centers activist disability rhetorics on Twitter, femme & queer embodiment rhetorics, and rhetoric as assistive devices. In 2017, she earned her summa cum laude M.A. from the City College of New York in Language and Literacy.
She’s the author of three chapbooks, including NOON, forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press, and the full-length poetry collection The Uninhabitable, selected from over 900 manuscripts in the 2017 Sibling Rivalry Press open reading period. You can read her writing online at HASTAC, Monstering, OCCULUM, The Wanderer, Heavy Feather Review, and other journals. She teaches writing at the City College of New York and the Cooper Union. She has also volunteered with the People’s Organization of Community Acupuncture (POCA), an international network of sliding-scale public acupuncture clinics advocating for low-cost holistic natural healthcare, since 2011. Rice-Evans also waited tables for 11 years in North Carolina, Seattle, and Brooklyn, which made her an advocate for low-wage food service workers, especially queers and women. She makes herbal medicine for stress and adrenal fatigue and distributes tinctures to low-income queer activists, disabled queers, and prison abolitionists. 
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