About

Jesse Ruddock is a writer, musician and photographer. She is the author of the forthcoming novel Now Keep Me Warm (Coach House 2026) and the novel Shot-Blue (Coach House 2017). Her writing and photographs have appeared in publications including the NewYorker.com, BOMB, N+1, Music & Literature, Vice, etc. She is a founding editor of the anti-disciplinary magazine o bod and is an instructor of Creative Writing at York University in Toronto.

Jesse lives with her partner Georgia Phillips-Amos and their children in the city of Guelph on the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe, Attawandaron, and Haudenosaunee peoples and on the treaty lands and along the rivers of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation.