Jessica is an MSW and essayist who has been published in Alice Wong’s bestselling Disability Visibility, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, and HuffPost. Find her on Longreads and on Judy Heumann's podcast. Her picture book about families with disabilities, This is How We Play, will be released in 2023 with Dial Press (Penguin Random House). A graduate of Davidson College and Columbia University, she is represented by Jill Marr at Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agents.