Jessica Barksdale is a Pushcart Prize and Best-of-the-Net nominee, whose short stories, poems, and essays have appeared in or are forthcoming in the Waccamaw Journal, Salt Hill Journal, Tahoma Review, and So to Speak. She is a Professor of English at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, California and teaches novel writing online for UCLA Extension and in the online MFA program for Southern New Hampshire University.
Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, she now lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband.