Jessica Bakar is from Northern California and lives in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. She was born in 2005 and used to write under a pen name.

selected publications2026
"Litmus" - The Maine Review (fc)
"Catch and Release" - The Penn Review (fc)2025
"Five Stories About Drowning" - the Veg
"Five Stories About Fire" - Geist (print)
"F*cking on a four-point scale" - Maybe Mag (print)
Interview with Ann-Marie MacDonald - Quist Literary
"Security Question" - Ahoy Literary (print), reprinted in JAKE2024
"Wasted Potential" - Quist Literary
"Unsent Postcards" - Nifty Lit
"Eight Letters I Won't Send" - Eunoia Review
"I read an essay yesterday about the Kinsey scale" - Talon Review
"time-space compression (at the alameda county fair)" - The Imagist2023 + prior
"How to Make Chicken Hekka" - Vagabond City Lit
"Late-Spring-Dying" - Lumiere Review
"Steps to Deriving Human Nature" - Lumiere Reviewhonours & experienceCNF Mentee, Quebec Writers Federation Mentorship Program 2026
Mentee, Girls Write Now Mentorship 2022-2026
Adjudicator, Regional Scholastic Art & Writing Awards 2025
Commendation, The Adroit Prize for Prose 2025
Prose mentor, Incandescent Summer Studio 2024
CNF Mentee, The Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship 2023
National Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, 2 Gold Medals in Personal Essay/Memoir 2023