WRITING
WRITING
Jessica’s essay, “On Molting” was selected as the winner of The Kenyon Review’s 2024 Short Nonfiction Contest judged by Melissa Febos.
Febos writes “At once taut and discursive, ‘On Molting’ draws an outline of grief by sketching the contours of a life unmoored by loss, but kept aloft by humor and the pleasures of memory and the mundane.”
Claiming Writerhood
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Brevity
Transition Lenses
Winner of a 2025 Pushcart Prize
Fugue
Identiy Release
BELLINGham review
Elsewhere
Finalist for the Annie Dillard Award in Nonfiction
Lumina
Muse
Honorable Mention in the WOW! Women on Writing Creative Nonfiction Contest
The COmmon
The Laws of Time and Physics
Working Artist Mag
Close Observation is an Act of Love
Hustle culture
Writing Practice
The Washington post
When facing a cancer diagnosis, sometimes information isn’t power
The Washington post
A childhood in 9/11’s Shadow: Did the debris cloud poison me?
Additional selected publications
Why a team of business schoolers has formed an election integrity startup - The Fulcrum
Confronting the intersection of American democracy and American racism - The Fulcrum
Why Apathy Is Unacceptable On November 8 - HuffPost
Homophobic Slur Proves Duke Is Not Yet a Community of "Integrity and Principles” - HuffPost
Local NJ Teen Will Argue for the Freedom to Marry - The New York Times
