Jessica Carter is an Australian writer. She has been published internationally in media, research and literary publications, including Island, Dumbo Feather and New Matilda. She writes across many forms, including creative nonfiction and poetry.

Jessica writes to make sense of the world, with works spanning themes of politics, medicine, memory, and place. In 2024, her poem “Through the underworld, again” was shortlisted for the ACU Prize for Poetry. In 2022, her essay “In the rain shadow” was featured in the Australian Nature Writing Showcase.

Beginning her career as a journalist, she has contributed to ABC News Radio and The Korea Herald, and worked with many organisations—such as the NSW Government, the University of Sydney and UNICEF—as a copywriter and editor.

Jessica has spent more than a decade working in public health in Australia and the Asia region, where she has lived in India, China, Bangladesh and South Korea. She now works in clinical research at the University of New South Wales, and holds a Master of Public Health.

She currently lives in Sydney under the cloudless coastal skies of Bidjigal land, where she is working on her first book.