Jessica Doe, PhD, is an Aniyunwiya (Cherokee Nation) writer, artist, and scholar whose work—often described as avant-garde conceptualism—centers Indigenization, space, and place. She has been awarded numerous fellowships throughout her career, such as a Fulbright Senior Scholarship in India, a Visiting Fellowship at the University of Notre Dame, and additional appointments at the British Library in London and the Lilly Library at Indiana University. Her visual works have been exhibited internationally in galleries like the International Print Center in NYC, the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, and IA&A Hillyer in Washington, D.C. Jessica has also completed several residencies, including at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in England and Crazy Horse Memorial in HeSapa (Dakota Territory). Her books have earned multiple honors, including the 2025 Indigenous Fiction Prize from Chapter House at the Institute for American Indian Arts (IAIA) as judged by Debra Magpie Earlig for a short horror story, finalist for the Oregon Book Award, and gold medals from the Independent Publisher Book Awards and the Book Excellence Awards. Raised on horror and the poetic—seeing An American Werewolf in London at two weeks old, growing up with a steady diet of Dean Koontz, Stephen King, and Shirley Jackson, all the while steeped in Sylvia Plath—her work continues to blur the boundaries between fear and lyric.
Jessica is represented by Rachel Letofsky.
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