Jessica Hiemstra
Toronto Artist. Writer. Designer.
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Writing

Jessica’s widely published in literary journals and has edited anthologies of poetry, stories and essays. She’s won several awards for her poetry, and every time she finds the right words she’s surprised and happy. 

At the moment Jessica’s writing from the second story of a little beige house in Toronto. She’s at work on a novel alongside her poems, paintings and drawings.  

When you buy one of Jessica’s books, she’ll autograph it for you.  You also get a complimentary set of the book’s illustrations. If you want to send Jessica’s book to a friend, she’ll inscribe it for you, with all her love (and a little of yours). 

Books

“Jessica Hiemstra knows how hard and dark the world can be and she is willing to take you there.  One minute your warm heart glows with tenderness, the next, not so tender at all…  Jessica Hiemstra … strums that nerve as though she were Johnny Cash, diet-pill rapid and ripped, beating the bejesus out of his wooden box of a guitar.  Hiemstra has fine tuned that minor chord we bellow when we are all singing that song "loss."” - Michael Dennis, Today’s Book of Poetry.

Jessica writes and edits poems, essays and stories. She’s widely published in literary journals and has won several awards for her writing, and every time she finds the right words she’s surprised and happy.