Her poetry has been compared to the delirious release found in the voice of Patty Smith and to brush strokes of fire. Jesse Loren is co-editor of Bombshells: War Stories and Poems by Women on the Homefront 2007, and Mourning Sickness 2008. Her work can be found in Exquisite Corpse, Yawp, New Virginia Review, etc. Loren's BA is from UC Irvine, her MFA is from UNO.