About Jessica

Jessica Slice is a disabled author, speaker, and essayist.

 

Her forthcoming book, Unfit Parent: A Disabled Mother Challenges an Inaccessible World (Beacon, 2025) has been shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Prize.

 

She is the co-author of Dateable: Swiping Right, Hooking Up, and Settling Down (Hachette, 2024) as well as the forthcoming This is How We Play (Dial, 2024), This is How We Talk (Dial, 2025), and We Belong (Dial, 2026), which was co-authored with the late Judy Heumann.

 

She has been published in Modern Love, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Alice Wong’s bestselling Disability Visibility, Glamour, and Cosmopolitan. She is a frequent and highly-requested guest on podcasts, including Slate and The New York Times.

 

She is a graduate of Davidson College and Columbia University (MSW) and is represented by Jill Marr at Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agents. She lives in Ontario with her family.