ABOUT JESSICA MOONEY

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Jessica Mooney is a Seattle-based writer whose short stories, essays and literary criticism have appeared in Entropy, Moss, The Seattle Review of Books, The Rumpus, Salon, the What to Read in the Rain Anthology published by 826 Seattle, and elsewhere. She is the author of the chapbook, Parting Gifts for Losing Contestants, a mini collection of essays on grief published by COAST|noCOAST.

She has received artist grants from Artist Trust, the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, 4 Culture, and was previously a Hugo House fellow.

In addition to being a writer, she also works in global health for an international nonprofit and has been working in pandemic response efforts as part of COVAX, the UN-affiliated global consortium delivering vaccines to more than 140 low- and middle-income countries.