Jessica Johns is a Cree writer from Canada, whose debut novel Bad Cree was published in 2023.
The novel was a shortlisted finalist for the 2023 Amazon.ca First Novel Award. It was expanded from her earlier short story of the same name, which won the Journey Prize in 2020.
A member of the Sucker Creek First Nation in northern Alberta, she has more recently divided her time between Edmonton and Vancouver, where she was an MFA student at the University of British Columbia. She wrote the novel in part as a response to a creative writing teacher who had told the class to never write about dreams, advice which Johns disagreed with due to the importance of dreams in Cree culture.
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21st-century Canadian novelists
21st-century Canadian short story writers
21st-century Canadian women writers
21st-century First Nations writers
First Nations novelists
First Nations women writers
Cree people
Writers from Alberta
University of British Columbia alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)