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Jia Oak Baker

About Jia Oak Baker

Jia Oak Baker is the author of the chapbooks Crash Landing in the Plaza of an Unknown City (Dancing Girl Press) and Well Enough to Travel (Five Oaks Press). She is the recipient of a 2015 grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts and has been awarded residencies from the Wurlitzer Foundation and Hedgebrook. Jia lives in Phoenix where she teaches writing and is an editor for Four Chambers Press.

Liberation

March 11, 2016 by Jia Oak Baker Leave a Comment

Jia Oak Baker’s poem made finalist for the 2015 Best of the Net Awards!

Gone Incognito

July 10, 2015 by Jia Oak Baker Leave a Comment

Faced with a racist pickup line, the speaker of Jia Oak Baker’s poem chooses playfulness over outrage.

Accident at the Vitamin Factory, 1976

April 10, 2015 by Jia Oak Baker Leave a Comment

An injured man is forced to reassess his relationship to family and work in this moving poem from Jia Oak Baker.

Story of a Man

December 26, 2014 by Jia Oak Baker Leave a Comment

In this poem, Jia Oak Baker examines a certain kind of man.

Liberation

October 6, 2014 by Jia Oak Baker Leave a Comment

Sweet and sad at the same time, this poem from Jia Oak Baker speaks to age, desire, and a kind of freedom.