bio

Jessica Westhead is a Toronto writer and freelance editor. Her fiction has appeared in literary magazines such as Joyland, The Antigonish Review, Matrix, THIS Magazine, Geist, Taddle Creek, and Kiss Machine. She also stapled together poetry winner, a zine exposé of the nefarious National Library of Poetry (AKA www.poetry.com). Her stories have been anthologized in Desire, Doom & Vice: A Canadian Collection (Wingate Press, 2005) and I.V. Lounge Nights (Tightrope Books, 2008). Jessica attended the Banff Wired Writing Studio in 2005. Her short-story chapbook, Those Girls, was published by Greenboathouse Books in 2006, and her first novel, Pulpy & Midge, was published by Coach House Books in fall 2007. She is currently finishing up a collection of short fiction.

Selected publications (short fiction)

“Todd & Belinda Rivers of 780 Strathcona” published on Joyland.ca

“The Only One” published in The Antigonish Review

“Steak and Eggs” published in Taddle Creek

“Gar’s Marine Palace” published in I.V. Lounge Nights (Tightrope Books),
previously published on ForgetMagazine.com

“Worse” published in Desire, Doom & Vice: A Canadian Collection (Wingate Press), previously published in THIS Magazine

“Some Wife” published in Matrix

“Bev’s Chick” published in Geist