Jessica Willingham is The Weekly editor and art director at Five South. She is a staff reader at The Masters Review. Jessica is an alumna of Lighthouse Writers Workshop Book Project 2019-2021 in Denver, Colorado, under the mentorship of Erika Krouse.

Her poems, flash fiction, and book reviews have appeared in Five South, Hare’s Paw Literary Journal, Hell is Real: A Midwest Gothic Anthology, Identity Theory, The Institutionalized Review, Roi Faineant, Still: The Journal, Superfroot, Thought Erotic, and Variant Literature, among others.

Her poems have been nominated for Sundress Publications’ Best of The Net 2023 and 2024.

She lives in Oklahoma.