Jessica Susan Oler is an African American poet, visual artist, and scholar. Oler utilizes photography, photographic collage, poetry, and auto-ethnographic writing to grapple with the complexities of living with a chronic illness. She holds a Master of Fine Arts. She is currently a PhD student in the Gender Studies Program at Queen’s University. Her poetry Stillness in Motion and collage pieces will be published in the forthcoming Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice: health, healing, and wellness issue. Oler has been invited to do projects with Harvard School of Medicine, the National MS Society, and Momentum Magazine. Her work has been shown at California College of the Arts, Lewis-Clark State College Center for Arts and History; Chautauqua, Rochester, and Brooklyn, New York; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Miami, Florida; Lawrenceville and Atlanta, Georgia; Alameda, Oakland, and San Francisco, California; and Alexandria, New South Wales, Australia.