Laura Jo Hess lived a lifetime in Brooklyn, NY and then California an now has returned to her home in St. Louis, MO. She earned her MFA in poetry from The New School. Her work has been published in Barrow Street Journal, H.O.W. Journal, The American Review of Poetry, and decomP Magazine, among others. During the day, she runs a shop called ljo&co and the rest of the time she is a mother and trying to be a poet again.