Jessy Bissal is a 25 year-old Armenian Lebanese currently living in Lebanon. She earned her BA in English Literature, Minor in Creative Writing, and M.A. in English Literature from the American University of Beirut. At present, she is a University Instructor, teaching English at various institutions in Lebanon (AUB, LAU, NDU). Poetry is something she does on the side. She never has, nor ever will make poetry her 'job' because if she were ever to do that, she feels she would have tainted the one release that brings her such joy in her spare time. That said, finding the time to write is easy for Jessy, because she never forces herself to sit down and write; she writes when the words suffocate her and slither their anaconda-body around her neck, pull tightly against her lungs and force her to spit them out.
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