2024 Bombeck Workshop Faculty Jessica Strawser

Jessica Strawser is an editor-at-large and columnist for Writer’s Digest, where she previously was an editorial director.

She is the author of Almost Missed You; Not That I Could Tell (a Book of the Month bestseller); Forget You Know Me; A Million Reasons Why; and The Next Thing You Know. Her sixth novel, The Last Caretaker, releases Dec. 1, 2023.

She has written for The New York Times Modern Love and Publishers Weekly and is a popular speaker at writing conferences.

She lives with her husband and two children in Cincinnati, where she was a 2019 Writer-in-Residence for the Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library.