MEET JACKIE ESS
“[Mentoring is] a sight of the future.”
Jackie Ess (she/her) is a writer, novelist, and the author of Darryl (Clash, 2021). A co-founder of the Bay Area Trans Writers Workshop, her work can be found in Heavy Feather Review, the Zahir, the New Inquiry, Vetch, and the anthology We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics. Other than that, she's making some effort to be a nice person.
Work
Darryl
We Want It All
mentor profile
Queer|Art|Mentorship will be accepting applications from emerging artists across the country. Are you open to working with someone remotely, or would you prefer they are based in the same city as you?
“Remote is okay.”
What interests you about mentoring?
“[Mentoring is] a sight of the future.”
Given your experience and interests, what kind of emerging artist do you feel best positioned to support?
“Broadly, realist writers.”
As a mentor, what would you like to offer an emerging artist? What would you like to receive?
“I would offer: early reading and editing, conversation, a little help navigating the publishing industry (though hopefully my mentee will get further than I have).”