Jaimee Hills was born in Plainfield, New Jersey in 1979. She was educated at the Johns Hopkins University, and took art courses at the Maryland Institute College of Art. She holds an MA from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and holds an MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she stayed on faculty for a year teaching poetry and writing. Since then, she has been a freelance writer and an events coordinator at an independent bookshop. Her work has appeared in Best New Poets, Unsplendid, Blackbird, Waccamaw, and elsewhere.
