Jenna Cardinale lives in Brooklyn, NY, where she has been a member of Nurture BK since July 2020. She earned a B.A.focused on English, Sociology, and Gender Studies from Northeastern University and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from The New School. She has published two chapbooks and her poems have appeared in Verse Daily, Court Green, and SAND, among others. She directs operational strategy at an education/ media company when not getting her hands dirty with compost.