Jessica Adams

  • Biography

After living ten years on a sailboat, Jessica Adams joined the English Department at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. Her short stories, essays, and poetry have appeared in a variety of journals.

All work

  • Bywater

    A manbo I know visited a plantation along the Mississippi with her hounfor and as they stood looking out towards the river, they saw spirits rise up over the levee.

    Issue 24 · Autumn 2021  ·  Postcard Prose

  • The Levee

    The sea has its ethics, and the right of salvage. The undiscovered country is yours. You come from a small place, a cramped place, where your best hope (as Cook’s would be, for nothing had changed even centuries later) is the open horizon at the edge of the sea. But you always leave ghosts. And the ghosts need a home.

    Issue 24 · Autumn 2021  ·  Postcard Prose

  • Hotel

    Late the next afternoon he’s opening the battered suitcase for a shirt not soaked with sweat when there’s a knock on the door.

    Issue 11 · January 2011  ·  Travel Notes