Jessica Bakar is an undergraduate at McGill University and an English major in denial. She's the Creative Nonfiction Editor for Vagabond City Lit and loves every moment of it. Jessica is a two-time National Scholastic gold medalist, a five-time Best of the Net nominee, and a Kenyon and Adroit mentorship alumna. Her prose has been recognized by Ringling College, Columbia College Chicago, and the Bay Area Creative Foundation, among others. You can read her work in Ahoy, Nifty Lit, & Talon Review.
Selected work
- Fiction
1
- Nonfiction
10
- Poetry
4

flag burning
Stirling Review, 2023

Selections from the Rice Purity Test
The Battering Ram Literary Journal, 2023

(be)coming
Apprentice Writer, 2023

For Naomi
Élan Literary Magazine, 2022

In Defense of Car Dependency
Fleeting Daze Magazine, 2024

Perfect Story
Pile Press Journal, 2022

time-space compression (at the alameda county fair)
The Imagist, 2023

A Year After the Fire, You Watch John Oliver
Petal Projections, 2025

Wasted Potential
Quist Lit, 2024

How Feminist Art Was Invented
The Dawn Review, 2022

How to Make Chicken Hekka
Vagabond City Literature, 2023

Unsent Postcards
NiftyLit, 2024

I read an essay yesterday on the Kinsey scale
Talon Review, 2024

Eight Letters I Won't Send
Eunoia Review, 2024

Security Question
Ahoy Literary , 2025