Jessica Willingham has been nominated for Sundress Publications’ Best of the Net Anthology (2023, 2024) and Best Microfiction (2025) and was longlisted for Wigleaf’s Top 50 Very Short Fictions (2024). She is a 2026 Woody Guthrie Poet and a 2026 Hedgebrook Writer-in-Residence in poetry.
She is a graduate of the Lighthouse Writers Workshop Book Project (2019–2021) in Denver, Colorado. She is an associate editor at L’Esprit Literary Review and Indirect Books and a submission reader for Bicoastal Review, Fractured Literary, and The Masters Review.
Her work appears in Hell Is Real: A Midwest Gothic Anthology, Identity Theory, Mississippi Review, and Variant Literature, among others.
She lives in Oklahoma.
