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 (BA) and San Francisco State University (MA). She attended Chestnut Review’s writing retreat in 2023.

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.