Jessica's debut novel Olive Days from Counterpoint Press (Editor Dan López), debuts September 10, 2024 and is available for preorder now.
Jessica was a finalist in the 2024 and 2020 Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards, and placed second in the 2020 First Pages Prize. Her stories and poems have been published in journals including The Beloit Fiction Journal, Midwestern Gothic, Crucible, Drash, and Anemone Sidecar. Her original play The Greys was produced at the Stella Adler Theatre in Hollywood. She earned her MFA in creative writing from Antioch University Los Angeles and her BA in journalism from USC.
Jessica lives with her husband and children in the Sonoran Desert.