Jessica Moore is a writer and translator. Her poems and translations have appeared in Arc, CV2, The Antigonish Review, Cenizo and The Literary Review. She also writes songs and plays the banjo in her band, Charms, whose self-titled album was released in 2010 in Toronto.

Part lyric, part memoir, Everything, now, Jessica Moore's heart-rending debut, describes an untimely death and the journey of going on alone. The book stares down loss and struggles to transform that loss into language that can pass through boundaries of intricate sorrow; the act of translation here is not about two different languages-although Moore uses her own translation of Jean-François Beauchemin's Turkana Boy as a template for translating death into life, past into present-but about the necessity to put the inexplicable into words that might hint at its intensity.