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.

Jess is currently working on a second novel, Experiencer; a third story collection, The Problem; and a memoir, Pelvis.

Jess also run an Instagram series called Stop the Doom-Scroll, where she interviews one writer a month and invites them to read short passages from their recently published books.

When Jess isn’t writing, reading, or collaborating with other writers, she parents and works in heathcare education.