About me

Jessie Carson is the Creative Director of Almonte Readers and Writers and has been a professional writer for over a decade. She teaches Communications at Algonquin College in Ottawa, CA as well as creative writing workshops in her community. Her writing is most often an inquiry into the themes of motherhood, loss, and how stories live in the body and through generations.

As an MFA student at Kings University in Nova Scotia, she is pursuing a degree in Creative Non-Fiction writing.

She has published in a variety of print and online magazines and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, long-listed for CBC Canada Writes, a finalist for the Malahat Review Non-Fiction Open Season Awards and awarded 2nd place the Writer’s Federation of New Brunswick’s non-fiction competition. 

She is currently working on a family memoir titled, How to Survive a Femicide, which is also the title of her latest publication in carte blanche. This story is the reason she started writing.