Randall, Jessy
Entry updated 12 October 2026. Tagged: Author, Poet.
(1969- ) US professional library curator, poet and author who first came to notice with a chapbook-length assembly, Dorothy Surrenders (coll 1999 ebook) (see Oz), which contains elements of Fantasy. She is of sf interest for "Ada Lovelace (1815-1852)" (January/February 2024 Asimov's) (see Ada Lovelace), and for two later collections, Mathematics for Ladies: Poems on Women in Science (coll 2022) and The Path of Most Resistance: Poems on Women in Science (coll 2025), containing witty Feminist narratives depicting the life and work of women in worlds fatuously and injuriously dominated by males. [JC]
Jessy Randall
born Hornell, New York: 1969
works (selected)
- Dorothy Surrenders (Santa Rosa, California: 2River, 1999) [coll: ebook: na/]
- Mathematics for Ladies: Poems on Women in Science (London: Goldsmiths Press, 2022) [poetry: coll: pb/uncredited]
- The Path of Most Resistance: Poems on Women in Science (London: Goldsmiths Press, 2025) [poetry: coll: pb/]
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