Jessica Knight is a writer, performer and zine maker based in Melbourne. She has participated in the National Young Writers' Festival, the Emerging Writers' Festival and Red Dirt Poetry Festival. She performed a one-woman show entitled Mormon Girl in 2019 at The Melbourne Fringe Festival. Jessica has written poetry and personal essay zines created with artist friend Miranda Costa aka MC drawn. Jessica has been published in a variety of outlets including Archer Magazine, Scum Mag and Meanjin. Jessica received an Arts Access Accelerate: Create grant in 2021 that helped make the writing of Strange Little Girl possible.