News & Awards
Jessica receives an Heritage Arts Apprenticeship Program Grant from the Center 2024-2025 with Center for Washington Cultural Traditions
“Planting the Hawthorn Tree” featured in the Skagit Symphony’s Second Chances
Jessica is nominated for Best of the Net 2023 by Crab Creek Review!
Harmony Fields featured in Seattle Times Pacific Northwest Magazine (June 2023)
Jessica is a Writing the Land poet for the Nature Conservancy’s Port Susan Bay Preserve
Jessica is a 2022 Jack Straw Writer. Find out more about the program here.
Poems
“Swanrise” in online gallery for Poems on America’s Lands, Waters, Wildlife, and Other Natural Wonders: A companion to the First National Nature Assessment (NNA1)
“Sue Bird’s Second to Last Home Game at Climate Pledge Arena” in The Seat
“Duplex for the Anthropocene” in SWWIM.
“A Strangely Warm Fall” in Climate Change issue of Snapdragon Journal .
“Blackberries” and “Late Tomatoes” in The Madrona Project: The Empty Bowl Cookbook.
“Marsh Talk,” “After the King Tides,” and “The Ecologist” appear in Channels, a publication of Nature Culture’s Writing the Land series
“Amends” appears in the anthology The Wonder of Small Things: Poems of Peace and Renewal edited by James Crews
“Joy” is on Dusie Tuesday poems May 9, 2023
“The future is” in Whale Road Review SPRING 2023
“The Scientist” is in The Dodge Magazine WINTER 2023
“Enormous Glacier Calvings Montage” up in Issue #32 of ECOTONE
Annual Holiday Compilation for Sound Poetry.
Two new micro-essays “regret” and “extinction” in the online ‘Summer Fling’ issue of Crab Creek Review
“Amends” in Silver Birch Press series How To Heal The Earth
“Latch” in (m)othering anthology (Inanna Press 5-17-22)
“Two Mothers Walking” and “Digging Irises” are in the inaugural issue of Mycorrhizae
“On-Farm Research” nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology by The Hopper!
“Adaptation” and “Farmers at the Museum” are in Cascadia Rising Review’s Fall Issue
“Eclipsed” is in For Love of Orcas
“Prayer for Good Mothering” is in the winter issue of Mothers Always Write
Orion Magazine has published “Fleece” in their Autumn 2018 issue
Flood Patterns poems featured on Tweetspeak Poetry by Callie Feyen
“Ghost Belly” is in Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing (Issue 4.1)
“Night Fire” is in the Magnolia Review (Volume 4, Issue 1)
“Tulip Season” is part of a WA 129+ Chapbook.
“Moments of Pause” featured in the Ekphrastic Review.
“Fall Salmon Run” & “Pregnant Ex-Pat In An Everyday Landscape” in About Place Journal.
Video: Interviews & Readings
COMMON AREA MAINTENANCE reading with Erin Langer & Micah Ellison
“Marsh Talk’ video and music from Channels, a Writing the Land anthology.
SoundPages Interview with Jack Straw Cultural Center
Featured on Rob Mclennan’s Blog
2022 Jack Straw Writing Program Reading w/ Julie Feng, Helen Anderson, and Emily Parzybok.
Bushwick/Jack Straw Collaboration with Kate Olson
Interview with David Gilmour for Sound Poetry, Radio Tacoma
Village Books reading for The Madrona Project with North Cascades Institute
Interview with Allison Adair on The Poet’s Cafe by A Mighty Blaze
Village Books reading with Jen Stewart Fueston and Chloe Yelena Miller
ie presents online series reading with ie gallery in Edison, WA
Folio reading with Margot Kahn, Keetje Kuipers, Anastacia Renee, Jenne Hsien Patrick