Writing

Jessy Easton is a writer whose work explores memory, family, and the long aftermath of addiction. She grew up in the Mojave Desert of California and now lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. She holds a BA in Communications from Vanguard University of Southern California. Her essay “The Things We Leave Out” was nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net in 2022. Her work has been published in The Rumpus, Good River Review, Beacon Quarterly, Rappahannock Review, and elsewhere. She is currently serializing her memoir on Substack and working on her next book.

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To read more of my writing, you can subscribe to AFTER/WORDS, my Substack newsletter where I publish personal essays, somatic writing practices, and my serialized memoir, The One Who Leaves.

The work centers on writing through the wreckage and the reconing—the time I grew up in a meth lab, family history, addiction, and the long aftermath of growing up in choas, with particular attention to how memory lives in the body and how we stay present with difficult material. I write about loving people who cause harm, about grief and responsibility, and about the contradictions that shape our inner lives.

AFTER/WORDS is also a teaching and communal space. Alongside essays, I share guided writing prompts and live sessions that offer a body-based approach to writing, focused on building enough safety and choice to approach tender and challenging stories without overwhelm. It’s a place to be in community with others who are doing the work of writing the hard thing and learning how to stay with themselves in the process.

PUBLISHED ESSAYS

“The Shape of Memory,” The Rumpus

“The Between Space,” Marrow Magazine

“The Things We Leave Out,” Good River Review *nominated for The Pushcart Prize 2022 and to be included in The Best of the Net Anthology

“How Did We End Up Back Here?,” Rappahannock Review

“From the Meth Lab to the Red Carpet,” Beacon Quarterly

“Protect Me From What I Want,” Entropy Magazine