About

Writes dark stories, plans to see the whole world.

Jessica loves bad puns, craft beer, street art, creepy things, and everything to do with books. Her writing tends toward the dark and the absurd, and is rooted in feminism and the intersectionality of the real world. She’s a registered social worker who spends her days in academia conducting research to improve population health.

Beyond her current work, she’s been a garden centre coordinator, crisis counsellor, tea party host, beer fest organizer, census worker, and bartender, among other things. She’s backpacked Europe, interned in western Africa, and acted in Shakespeare plays and other community theatre. She stewards a Little Free Library, loves veggie gardening and bread baking, and once held a skunk. Her lifelong dream is to get on Jeopardy.

Jessica lives in the sometimes gritty, ex-Steel City of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada with her partner and their two black cats*.

Official Bio

Jessica Peter writes dark, haunted, and sometimes absurd short stories, novels, and poems. A social worker and health researcher, she lives in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Her writing can be found in Apparition Literary, The NoSleep Podcast, and Cosmic Horror Monthly, among other places. She is co-editing Howls from the Scene of the Crime: An Anthology of Crime Horror (May 2024). You can find her on Twitter @jessicapeter1, @jessicapeter.bsky.social, or at www.jessicapeter.net.