News
“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!
Featured in Seattle Times Pacific Northwest Magazine
SoundPages Interview with Jack Straw Cultural Center
Featured on Rob Mclennan’s Blog:
Jessica is a Writing the Land poet for the Nature Conservancy’s Port Susan Bay Preserve
Bushwick/Jack Straw Collaboration with Kate Olson
Jessica is a 2022 Jack Straw Writer. Find out more about the program here.
2021 Washington State Book Award finalist-Feeding Hour
“The Washington State Book Awards honor works of outstanding literary merit by Washington authors. An award is given based on the strength of the publication’s literary merit, lasting importance and overall quality.”
Feeding Hour has won a 2020 Nautilus Book Award!
Poems
“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 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 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 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.
Interviews & Readings
2022 Jack Straw Writing Program Reading w/ Julie Feng, Helen Anderson, and Emily Parzybok.
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
