Jill Magi works in text, image, and textile, and her books include Threads (Futurepoem), Torchwood (Shearsman), and SLOT (UDP). Recent work has appeared in Best American Experimental Writing 2018, and Boston Review, among others. In October of 2017 Jill blogged for the Poetry Foundation, and in the spring of 2015 Jill wrote weekly commentaries for Jacket2 on “a textile poetics.” Her essays have appeared in The Edinburgh University Press Critical Medical Humanities Reader, The Eco-Language Reader, and others. Jill has been awarded residencies with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace program, the Brooklyn Textile Arts Center, and has had solo shows with Tashkeel in Dubai and the Project Space Gallery at New York University Abu Dhabi. For her community-based publishing work, Poets & Writers magazine included her among the most inspiring writers in 2010. Jill teaches in the literature/creative writing and visual arts programs at NYU Abu Dhabi.