Jessie Carty shares a birthday with Florence Henderson and Meg Tilly, and lives in the state where Nina Simone, Ben Folds, and Evan Rachel Wood were born. She is the author At the A & P Meridiem (Pudding House, 2009), The Wait of Atom (Folded Word, 2009), and Paper House (Folded Word, 2010). Jessie is also Managing Editor of Referential Magazine, and invites you to read this poem about a celebrity there.