Jami Macarty

Vincent K. Wong

Jami Macarty is the author of "The Long Now Conditions Permit," winner of the 2023 Test Site Poetry Prize, and "The Minuses," winner of the 2020 New Mexico/Arizona Book Award-Poetry Arizona. She has also published four chapbooks, including "The Whole Catastrophe" and "Mind of Spring," winner of the 2017 Vallum Chapbook Award. Macarty’s writing is supported by the Arizona Commission on the Arts and the British Columbia Arts Council. She teaches creative writing at Simon Fraser University. 

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Awards: 2025 The bpNichol Chapbook Award finalist; 2023 Test Site Poetry Prize; 2020 New Mexico/Arizona Book Award-Poetry Arizona, winner; 2017 Vallum Chapbook Award winner; 2017-2024 seven-time Pushcart Prize nominee

Communities: Arizona Author, Tucsonan

Books:

The Long Now Conditions Permit

Poems
Poetry
University of Nevada Press
December 2025
ISBN 9781647792039
80 pages

The Minuses

Poetry
The Center for Literary Publishing
March 2020
ISBN 9781885635716
90 pages