Justin Jannise

Justin Jannise’s poetry collection How to Be Better by Being Worse (BOA Editions, 2021) won the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. His writing has appeared in Best New Poets, Best of the Net, Copper Nickel, The Yale Review, and New Ohio Review. Recently a recipient of the Inprint Verlaine Prize in Poetry and a former editor-in-chief of Gulf Coast, Jannise is a PhD candidate in creative writing and literature at the University of Houston.