Hiemstra, Jessica

Jessica Hiemstra is an author and poet who is widely published in literary journals. She was the winner of the "Malahat Review"'s 2010 Open Season Award for Non-Fiction, a finalist for the 2010 Winston Collins/"Descant" Prize for Best Canadian Poem, and the winner of the 2009 Vancouver International Writers and Readers Festival poetry award. No stranger to collaboration, Jessica is currently writing a novel with her mother and working on a collaborative poetry project with other Canadian poets called "Translating Horses".