Jessica Fechtor is a writer based in San Francisco. Her play, Book of Hours, was developed by The Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep, the Great Plains Theatre Commons, and was a finalist for the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. She is also the author of the bestselling memoir, Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals that Brought Me Home. As a 2021 LABA fellow, Jessica worked on a series of ekphrastic monologues that explore the mechanics of artistic inspiration. Her essays have appeared in The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, among others.

Jessica earned a B.A. in music from Columbia University, and has completed master’s degrees and doctoral work in Jewish literature at Oxford and Harvard universities. She has taught literature and creative writing workshops around the country.