Jalen Eutsey was born and raised in Miami, Florida, and earned a BA from the University of Miami and an MFA from The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. He was a 2022-2024 Wallace Stegner Fellow. His poems have appeared in The Yale Review, Best New Poets, Nashville Review, Poetry Northwest, Harpur Palate, and The Hopkins Review. His chapbook, Bubble Gum Stadium, was published by Button Poetry.