Jessie Wingate is a parent, poet, and floral designer living on unceded Ohlone land in California.
Jessie grew up on Timucuan land in Daytona Beach, Florida and was educated at the University of California, Berkeley (BA History of Art) and San Francisco State University (MA Art History). She attended Chestnut Review’s writing retreat in 2023 and Megan Falley’s workshop, Poems That Don’t Suck in 2024.
Publications
Southern Humanities Review, Vol 58 No 4, Dec 2025
Burningword Literary Journal, July 2025
The Art of Chestnut Review, Volume 1
CALYX: A Journal of Art & Literature by Women, 2025
F(r)iction: The Gods Issue, 2025
A Thousand Flowers Anthology, 2024
Qu Literary Magazine, Summer 2024
The Antigonish Review, Spring 2024
Broken Antler Magazine, October 2023
The Berkeley Poetry Review, 2022
California Quarterly, Autumn 2022
The Ekphrastic Review, August 2022
LitBreak Magazine, August 2022
Mother Mag (nonfiction) July 2021
The Bold Italic (nonfiction) January 2021
Forthcoming
Cimarron Review
Southeast Review
Atlanta Review
Allium, A Journal of Poetry & Prose
Sonora Review
“Jessie Wingate” is a pen name taken from Jessie’s namesake and great great grandmother. The real Jessie Ethlyn Wingate was born in 1878 in Iowa. She birthed 3 daughters and 5 sons before dying of a pulmonary embolism at the tender age of 54.