JP Howard aka Juliet P. Howard is a poet, Cave Canem graduate fellow, member of The Hot Poets Collective and native New Yorker. Her debut poetry collection SAY / MIRROR is forthcoming from The Operating System. JP curates and nurtures Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon and blog (WWBPS), a forum offering women writers at all levels a venue to come together in a positive and supportive space. WWBPS hosts monthly literary Salons in NY and the blog accepts submissions of poetry. She is a 2014 alum of the VONA/Voices Writers Workshop. She is a Lambda Literary Foundation Emerging LGBT Voices Fellow and was a Cave Canem Fellow-in-Residence at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. JP was a finalist in the poetry category by the Lesbian Writers’ Fund of Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, as well as the recipient of a Soul Mountain Retreat writing residency. She was awarded an MFA in Creative Writing from the City College of New York and holds a BA from Barnard College.

My debut poetry collection SAY / MIRROR is forthcoming from The Operating System Press. poems have been widely published, including: Nepantla:A Journal for Queer Poets of Color (Lambda Literary Foundation), Adrienne A Poetry Journal of Queer Women (Sibling Rivalry Press), The Wide Shore A Journal of Global Women's Poetry,iArtistas, The Best American Poetry Blog, MiPOesias iPad Companion, African Voices Magazine, Kweli Journal, The Mom Egg, “Of Fire, Of Iron”, Talking Writing, Muzzle Magazine, Muzzle’s 2011 “Best of the First Year” Print Issue, Connotation Press, Brown Girl Love, TORCH, Queer Convention: A Chapbook of Fierce, Cave Canem Anthology XII: Poems 2008-2009, Cave Canem XI 2007 Anthology, Promethean Literary Journal, The Portable Lower East Side (Queer City) and Poetry in Performance. My poems are published or forthcoming in The Mom Egg 2012, Vol.10, Talking Writing, Muzzle Magazine, Muzzle Magazine Best of First Year Print Edition, Connotation Press, TORCH, Queer Convention: A Chapbook of Fierce, Cave Canem Anthology XII: Poems 2008-2009, Cave Canem XI 2007 Anthology, The Portable Lower East Side (Queer City), Promethean Literary Journal and Poetry in Performance.

As the Curator and Nurturer of Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon and Blog, my Salon provides a forum offering women writers at all levels a venue to come together in a positive and critically supportive space. We host monthly Salons in the NYC area (having expanded to occasional Salons in Seattle and California in 2014) each with interactive writing workshops,featured poets reading, Q & A with our featured author, literary discussions and an open mic. Our blog publishes poetry by women poets.