About me

Jessie has been a professional writer and editor for over fifteen years. She teaches at Algonquin College in Ottawa, CA, as well as creative writing workshops in her community. In 2022, she co-founded Almonte Readers & Writers, a literary non-profit which runs events in her community. She has an MFA in Creative Non-Fiction from the University of King’s College in Nova Scotia.

She is 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 in the Writer’s Federation of New Brunswick’s non-fiction competition. 

Her writing is most often an inquiry into the themes of motherhood, loss, and how stories live in the body and through generations.

She is currently working on a memoir that turns around her maternal family history titled, The Sky That Night: a daughter’s retelling of a family femicide. This story is the reason she started writing.

Contact me at jesscarson@gmail.com.