Jessica Lee McMillan (she/her) is a writer, poet, and teacher with an English MA and Certificate of Creative Writing from Simon Fraser University's The Writer's Studio. Jessica's work explores place, science, pop culture, music, film, social justice, the body, perception, and scale.

 

Her work has appeared/is appearing in 50 journals across Turtle Island, including The Malahat Review, Canadian Literature, QWERTY, The New Quarterly, CV2, The Humber Literary Review, Funicular Magazine, Pinhole Poetry, and Crab Creek Review. Jessica won the League of Canadian Poets 2024 National Broadsheet Contest, placed third in ROOM Magazine’s 2024 Poetry Contest, was a finalist for The Fiddlehead's 2023 Ralph Gustafson Poetry Contest, and won the 2022 RCLAS Write On! Contest for poetry. She was longlisted for the Vera Manuel Poetry Contest and her poems have also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. 

 

Jessica is a first-generation Canadian settler who lives with gratitude on the lands of the Halkomelem-speaking peoples (colonially known as New Westminster BC) with her little family and large dog. She expects to be buried under her shelves of books and records.