Jessica Willingham is The Weekly editor and art director at Five South and a staff reader at The Masters Review. She 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 work has been nominated for Sundress Publications’ Best of The Net 2023 and 2024, and longlisted in Wigleaf’s Top 50 Short Fictions 2024 by selecting editor Maurice Carlos Ruffin.

She lives in Oklahoma.