Traci O'Dea is the author of Restricted Movement (Scotland Street Press, 2021) and Waving (Assure Press, 2021). Her poetry has appeared in the following places: BBC Radio Jersey, Poetry, Poetry Daily, Literary Matters, The Hopkins Review, The Jersey Evening Post, Goethe Institut, and elsewhere. She is currently working on a collection of verse monologues about deaths in a marble quarry.
A poetry editor for the literary journals Smartish Pace and MOKO: Caribbean Arts & Letters, she has previously worked as a lecturer in English language and literature at H. Lavity Stoutt Community College in the British Virgin Islands. Prior to that, Traci O'Dea worked as a magazine and book editor at aLookingGlass Creative, also in the BVI. She spent a year teaching English to high school and post-bac students in Valenciennes, France.
O'Dea earned an MA and MFA from Johns Hopkins University and a BA in English Literature from University of Maryland College Park.
Traci O’Dea currently lives in Jersey, Channel Islands, UK.