Jessica Moore

Jessica Moore is an author and literary translator. Her books include The Whole Singing Ocean (2020), a true story in long-poem form, and the poetry collection Everything, now (2012). Her translation of Jean-François Beauchemin's Turkana Boy won a PEN America Translation Award. She is also the translator of five books by Maylis de Kerangal, including Mend the Living, nominated for the 2016 International Man Booker and winner of the UK's Wellcome Book Prize in 2017, and Eastbound, named one of the New York Times' 10 Best Books of 2023. She lives in Toronto, where she also performs original music.