Jessica’s short stories have appeared in The New Quarterly, The Fiddlehead, Grain and will be in The Sun's June 2025 issue. Her work has been nominated for The Journey Prize and the National Magazine Awards. Jessica wrote “Wake” (dir. Jeremy Webb), winner of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Short Film Face Off. She is a Praxis Screenwriting Centre Fellow. With the generous support of two consecutive Canada Council for the Arts grants, Jessica is working on her first novel.
Selected work
Dear Old Dad
The Sun, 2025
NonfictionEssayLiterary
Anthony from Brooklyn Says Thank You For Lunch
Grain, 2023
NonfictionEssayLiterary
When it Rains
The Fiddlehead, 2022
NonfictionEssayLiterary
We Go Alone
The New Quarterly, 2013
FictionShort Story