About

THE POET

Jessica Van de Kemp is the author of the poetry chapbooks Daughters in the Dead Land (Kelsay Books, 2017) and Spirit Light (The Steel Chisel, 2015).

Her poem, “Slant of the Girl,” was shortlisted for the 2015 Montreal International Poetry Prize, and appears in the Global Poetry Anthology (Véhicule Press, 2015). Her stage play, Hatching in a Cage, was a finalist at the inaugural National Play Festival.

Jessica is a sessional lecturer at the University of Waterloo, where she teaches undergraduate courses on rhetoric, writing, and more. In 2021, she completed a PhD in English.