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

Mend the Living