About

Jessy Easton is a writer, memoirist, and somatic writing facilitator.

She works primarily in personal narrative, exploring memory, trauma, motherhood, addiction, and identity, with a particular focus on how stories live in the body. Her work is less concerned with what the truth is than with how we tell it—how we stay with ourselves while writing, and how we build enough safety and choice for difficult stories to emerge without overwhelm. This body-based approach to storytelling is part of what she calls The Somatic Writing Project—an evolving body of work that gathers her teaching, writing, and community into a single somatic approach to memory and narrative.

Jessy is the creator of The Threshold, a somatic writing cohort for women learning to approach emotionally charged memory from a nervous-system-safe place. With over a decade of experience guiding writers, she teaches an embodied approach to storytelling centered on expanding capacity to stay with ourselves as we write. Her sessions and workshops are intimate, trauma-informed, and rooted in the belief that writing hard stories is not about becoming someone new, but about remembering the self who can hold them.

She also leads The Inner Room, an ongoing membership writing community where women remain in relationship with their stories and with themselves. The Inner Room extends the work beyond a single cohort, offering continuity, depth, and connection over time.

She is the author of the serialized memoir The One Who Leaves, a Substack bestseller. Her Substack, AFTER/WORDS, is a space where readers engage with difficult stories through essays, live sessions, and somatic writing prompts focused on memory, lived experience, and the body. Her work has been published in The Rumpus, Good River Review, Beacon Quarterly, Rappahannock Review, and elsewhere, and her essay “The Things We Leave Out” was nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

Born in the Mojave Desert of California, Jessy now lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains with her husband, their son Pressley, and their two black dogs. She is currently working on her next book.