Jessica is the author of A Curious Intimacy and Entitlement. Her short stories and essays have appeared widely in Australian and international literary journals and she has won awards, funding and residencies.

Her hybrid memoir, Hearing Maud, won the Michael Crouch Award for a debut biography and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award, the National Biography Award and two categories in the Queensland Literary Awards.

I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which I live and write. I recognise their ongoing connection to land, water, community and story, and pay my respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging.