Jessica Patterson

Jessica Patterson has a background in education, marketing, and public history. Originally trained as a history teacher, she now works in marketing and communications for Historica Canada, publishers of The Canadian Encyclopedia, where she also writes nonfiction articles on Canadian history and speculative fiction.

Alongside her work in public history, she writes speculative fiction that explores imagined futures shaped by memory, identity, and the systems that define how we live and die. Her short fiction has appeared in Long Con Magazine and is forthcoming in Harvey Duckman Presents.

Her debut novel, The War on Death, is a neonoir mystery set in a world where immortality is possible, and where love becomes the most dangerous risk of all. She lives in Montreal with her husband and her cat, Moonzie. When she is not writing, she can often be found in a neighbourhood café, thrifting, sewing her own clothes, or embroidering her favourite song lyrics onto jackets.