About me

Jessie Carson is the Creative Director of Almonte Readers and Writers and has been a professional writer for over a decade. Her writing is most often an inquiry into the themes of motherhood, loss, and how stories live in the body and through generations.

She has published in a variety of print and online magazines and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, long-listed for CBC Canada Writes, a finalist for the Malahat Review Non-Fiction Open Season Awards and awarded 2nd place the Writer’s Federation of New Brunswick’s non-fiction competition.