Hello! I’m Jessica Friedmann, and this is my website.

I’m a writer and editor currently living in Braidwood, NSW, and working on my first novel, Priest Pond, as well as developing a non-fiction look at the tarot in contemporary culture, 22 Impressions: Notes from the Major Arcana.

My debut book of essays, Things That Helped, came out in 2017 with Scribe in Australia and the UK, and in 2018, with FSG Originals in America. The collection is themed around postnatal depression, but wanders across visual art, dance movies, food, feminism, society, culture etc.

As an editor, I have worked across student paper Farrago and indie titles Going Down Swinging, a cloth-covered button, and Dumbo Feather, with a stint at the Lonely Planet. I have also been the publications manager at peak body, Australian Poetry.

My writing has appeared in The Globe and Mail, The Guardian, LitHub, Longreads, The Rumpus, The Lifted Brow, Smith Journal, Dumbo Feather, Voiceworks, Arts Hub, newmatilda, Australian Financial Review, The Age, Luxury, and more.

Get in touch at hello@jessicafriedmann.com, or contact my agent, Grace Heifetz, via Left Bank Literary.