Jessie Wingate is a parent, poet, and floral designer living on unceded Ohlone land in California.
a.k.a. Jessie Zechnowitz Lim
Jessie grew up on Timucuan land in Daytona Beach, Florida and was educated at the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco State University. She attended Chestnut Review’s writing retreat in 2023.
Publications
A Thousand Flowers Anthology 2024
Qu Literary Magazine Summer 2024
Camas Summer 2024
The Antigonish Review Spring 2024
MER March 2023
Kestrel Summer 2023
Broken Antler Magazine October 2023
The Berkeley Poetry Review 2022
Chestnut Review Autumn 2022
California Quarterly Autumn 2022
Feed Lit Mag August 2022
The Ekphrastic Review August 2022
Indianapolis Review 2022
LitBreak Magazine August 2022
Mother Mag (nonfiction) July 2021
The Bold Italic (nonfiction) January 2021
Forthcoming
F(r)iction
CALYX
Chestnut Review Art Anthology
“Jessie Wingate” is a pen name taken from Jessie’s namesake and great great grandmother. The real Jessie Wingate was born in 1878 in Iowa. She birthed 3 daughters and 5 sons before dying of a pulmonary embolism at the tender age of 54.