Jessica Johns

Jessica Johns is a Nehiyaw-English-Irish aunty and member of Sucker Creek First Nation in Treaty 8 territory in Northern Alberta. She is the Managing Editor for Room Magazine and a co-organizer of the Indigenous Brilliance reading series. Her short story, “The Bull of the Cromdale,” was nominated for a 2019 National Magazine Award, her debut poetry chapbook, How Not to Spill, won the 2019 BP Nichol Chapbook Award, and her short story “Bad Cree” is nominated for a 2020 National Magazine Award.

Appears in Writing in a Time of Slow Disaster