Jessica White

WHITE, Jessica

Jessica White is an award-winning author of fiction and creative non-fiction. Her short stories and essays have appeared widely in Australian and international literary journals, and she has undertaken residencies at the B.R Whiting Studio in Rome and the Rachel Carson Center in Munich. She lives on Kaurna country, where she is an Associate Professor in Creative Writing and Literary Studies at Adelaide University. Her most recent work is Silence is my Habitat: Ecobiographical Essays (Upswell, 2025). 

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We are all deaf during the pandemic

GR OnlineFor me, every day is an online conversation, with or without a pandemic. Sentences are broken. Loud noises interfere. There’s a lag as I try to decode what someone has said. I am permanently exhausted from the huge amount of processing my brain requires to function in the world.

Unfurling

FictionEVA HAD LOVED the first slap of cold water on her face when she dived into the pool, then the bubbles peeling away from her hands like pearls. A shoal of parrotfish passed on her right, creating a golden...

The native seeds of Augusta

Essay‘MUCH TO MY surprise in Dec last I received a particularly choice box of seeds, and your polite note, requesting a return of the Native seeds of Augusta,’ wrote Georgiana Molloy on 21 March 1837, in her first letter...

Displaced

FictionTHE DELICATE RED filigree of the sea fan coral looked like alveoli in lungs, Clare thought as she kicked through the shallow waters of the reef, out towards a rock wall that she saw in the distance. She passed...

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