About Jessica

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

 

Her 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) and  This is How We Play (Dial, 2024), as well as the forthcoming 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, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, the Guardian, The Globe & Mail, LitHub, Alice Wong’s bestselling Disability Visibility, Slate, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, and more.

 

She’s been featured in Vogue, The New Yorker, PBS, NPR, The Cut, the BBC, and more.

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She lives in Toronto with her family.