Jessica Kinuyo Bakar

Jessica Kinuyo Bakar is a queer mixed-Asian writer from Northern California. She’s completing her B.A. in Creative Writing at Concordia, where she received the 2025-26 Gabriel Safdie Award in Drama. Jessica’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Geist, Grain, Hippocampus Magazine, The Maine Review, and more. She is developing a nonfiction project on the 2023 Lāhainā fires and has recently received mentorship support from QWF and AWP. She is also developing her first play under Playwrights’ Workshop Montréal’s Young Creators Unit.