Jessica Kinuyo Bakar is from Northern California and lives in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Her work has appeared in Canadian and U.S. publications, including Geist, The Maine Review, The /temz/ Review, and elsewhere. Recently, she has received mentorship support under The Quebec Writers' Federation and AWP. She is also Co-Editor-in-Chief of Soliloquies Anthology. Jessica was born in 2005 and used to write under a pen name.

selected publications2026
"The WAIS-IV in Heartbroken Young Adult Populations: A Selected Review" - Hippocampus Magazine (fc)
"Litmus" - The Maine Review
"An Abbreviated Inventory of Lost Places" & "Free Recall" - Soliloquies Anthology 30.2 (print)
"SANDSBERG" - The /temz/ Review
"Catch and Release" - The Penn Review2025
"Five Stories About Drowning" - the Veg (print)
"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 Imagisthonours & experienceCo-Editor-in-Chief of Soliloquies Antholoy 31st Edition 2026-2027
CNF Mentee, AWP Writer to Writer Program 2026
CNF Mentee, Quebec Writers Federation Mentorship Program 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