Jen Hyde was born in Anaheim, California in 1985. She is the founder and publisher of Small Anchor Press, the editor-in-chief of Washington Square and a contributing editor for The Corresponding Society. She earned her B.F.A. from the Pratt Institute and is a candidate for an M.F.A. in poetry at New York University.
Her poems have made small appearances in The Agriculture Reader, Unpleasant Event Schedule and La Fovea. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.