Jenna Goldsmith is a poet and writer living in Northern Illinois. She is Senior Instructor I at Oregon State University Cascades (remote) where she works with the low-residency MFA Program in Creative Writing. Her 2022 chapbook CRUSH was the winner of the Baltic Writing Residency Chapbook Contest. In January 2023, she was sworn in as the City of Rockford's 2nd Poet Laureate.