Jessica Ferguson
BIO:
Jessica Ferguson writes fiction and nonfiction. Her devotions are in Pray a Word for Hope, a
Guidepost Devotional and her short romance fiction has appeared in Woman’s World
Magazine. Jess is a former staff writer for Southern Writers Magazine. She enjoyed
interviewing and prying writing secrets out of bestselling authors. She’s been a columnist and
feature writer for The Beaumont Enterprise, The Times of Southwest Louisiana and other
newspapers and magazines in Louisiana and Texas, wearing many hats as an assistant editor,
writer and photographer.
Jess enjoys submitting to collections. She admits that she has always “chased the markets.” One
of her greatest joys was writing a Christmas play for her church and seeing her characters come
alive on stage.
Some of her published works are The Groom Wore Blue Suede Shoes, The Little Girl in the
Bayou, The Last Daughter, Save The Groom, and Christmas in Love: Three stories of Faith,
Hope and Forgiveness. Her very first published piece was Prayer from a Divorced Woman in
True Story Magazine. God called her to write for Him. Jess is a prodigal daughter so when God
gave her Acts 4:20 as her “writing scripture” she knew she would incorporate her own
story—what she had seen and heard and experienced—within everything she wrote, in one
way or another.
Jess is the founder of the East Texas Writers Association in her hometown of Longview, Texas,
and a past president of the Bayou Writers Group in Lake Charles, Louisiana, where she and her
husband retired. She is a member of ACFW, FHLCW, and Writers On The Storm, to name a few.
She is represented by Barb Roose at Books and Such Literary Management.