Photo of Jessica Moore reading onstage.

Jessica Moore

Jessica Moore is an author and literary translator. Her first book, Everything, now (Brick Books 2012), is a love letter to the dead and a conversation with her translation of Turkana Boy (Talonbooks 2012) by Jean-François Beauchemin, for which she won a PEN America Translation award. Mend the Living, her translation of the novel by Maylis de Kerangal, was nominated for the 2016 Man Booker International and won the UK’s Wellcome Prize in 2017. Jessica’s most recent book – The Whole Singing Ocean (Nightwood 2020) – blends long poem, investigative journalism, and family history. She lives in Toronto.

Birth of a Bridge

Winner 2010 Médicis Prize

Winner 2010 Franz Hessel Prize

Mend the Living

Long-listed 2016 Man Booker International Prize

Winner 2017 Wellcome Book Prize

Birth of a Bridge

Winner 2010 Médicis Prize

Winner 2010 Franz Hessel Prize

Mend the Living

Long-listed 2016 Man Booker International Prize

Winner 2017 Wellcome Book Prize