Jessica Knapp has undergraduate degrees in English and ceramics from Kutztown University, as well as an MFA in Ceramics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She also completed the Copyediting Certificate Program at the University of California San Diego Extension.

After moving at least once a year for about a decade for school, residencies, and jobs, she started work at Ceramics Monthly and Pottery Making Illustrated as assistant editor, and has since become associate editor, and most recently, editor. 

When she’s not at the office, she can usually be found in her studio, a.k.a. her basement, making work, experimenting, and generally making a mess that she tries not to track around the rest of the house. Beyond studio work, she enjoys working in her garden, attempting to make home improvements, hiking (there are hills in Ohio, honest there are), and traveling.