Jenny Drai is the author of three full-length collections of poetry: [ the door ] (Trembling Pillow Press), and Wine Dark and The History Worker (both from Black Lawrence Press). Her prose chapbook, The New Sorrow Is Less Than the Old Sorrow, is also available from Black Lawrence. BEWILDERED PHYSICAL SPACES, a collection of her hybrid experimental pieces, has been named winner of the Subito Innovative Writing Contest and will be published in September 2026 by Subito Press. Other prose has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Pleiades (where she was awarded the G.B. Crump Prize in Experimental Fiction), and Tupelo Quarterly, among other journals. She lives in Chicagoland and is online at jennydrai.com.