Write Now! Presents: Jess Taylor

Jess Taylor is a writer and poet who works on the traditional lands of the the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Huron-Wendat peoples and the Missaussagas of the Credit, in the city now called Toronto. Her second collection, Just Pervs, was released by Book*hug in Canada in September 2019. Recently, Just Pervs was a finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Fiction. A short story from that collection, "Two Sex Addicts Fall in Love", was long-listed for The Journey Prize. The title story from her first collection, Pauls (Book*hug Press, 2015), "Paul," received the 2013 Gold Fiction National Magazine Award. Play is her first novel.

About Write Now!

This talk is part of Writing 2520A (Write Now! - Writers on Writing) offered by the Department of English & Writing Studies at Western University. Writing 2520A is organized around a series of lectures by writers. Every week, a new writer visits the class to read from their work, talk about their writing and their career, and answer questions. Guest lectures are open to Western students, staff and faculty.

For more information about this course, please visit our course information page.

Everyone is welcome!