Jessica White

A tactile and olfactory journey through a silent ecosystem Silence is my Habitat by Jessica White explores the profound connection between her deafness and the natural world. Deaf since she was four years old, White presents an ecobiography – a narrative that examines her interaction with her ecosystem and its influence on her identity. Through a series of essays, she...

Shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2020: Non-Fiction Hearing Maud: A Journey for a Voice is a work of creative non-fiction that details the author's experiences of deafness after losing most of her hearing at age four. It charts how, as she grew up, she was estranged from people and turned to reading and writing for solace, eventually establishing...