Jessica Ambrose is a poet, writer, and faculty member at her alma mater, the Baltimore School for the Arts. Her work has appeared in prominent literary journals, and her prose appears in Artist from Maryland as Artist of the Month in January 2026. She is a recipient of the Denis Diderot Emerging Artist Grant and a 2027 International Artists and Writers Residency at Château d’Orquevaux in France. Jessica is a 2026 semifinalist for the Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship and attends Goucher College in MD.
Selected work
Shore House Sonnets
Half and One, 2026
The Story of Lara Gerding
Close To The Bone Publishing, 2026
Peaches and Pits | Issue 96, June 2025 by J.C. Ambrose in the June issue of The Write Launch
The Write Launch, 2025
MK-Ultra, Akin to AI | Issue 98, August 2025 by J.C. Ambrose in the August issue of The Write Launch
The Write Launch, 2025
Alveoli
Bristol Noir, 2025
Ekphrastic Cave
Bristol Noir, 2025
Blue Lily
Bristol Noir, 2025
The Circus Paused
2025
Letter to Younger Self
2025
Last Night in Baltimore
2025
Abstract Street
Artists from Maryland, 2026
Maryland Bards Poetry Review Preorders
Local Gems Press, 2026