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Jessica Johns

Jessica Johns

Jessica Johns Biography

Jessica Johns is a Nehiyaw aunty and member of Sucker Creek First Nation in Treaty 8 territory in Northern Alberta. Her writing has been published in numerous literary magazines, and her short story Bad Cree won the 2020 Writers' Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize. Her visual art has been featured at the 2022 Rhubarb Festival, grunt gallery, and at Latitude 53.

She serves on the editorial board for GUTS – An Anti-Colonial Feminist Magazine, the advisory board for the Indigenous Brilliance reading series, and also brews kombucha as the founder of kokôm kombucha.

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