Jessica Cheng is a North York-based writer and a community-engaged artist-curator. With a background in Journalism and Comparative Literature, she is deeply interested in exploring diverse forms of storytelling as a way to uncover personal and collective narratives. Her writing has been recognized with several awards, including First Place in the Hong Kong Literature House Novel Writing Competition and the Intervarsity Creative Writing Competition Award.

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Her creative practice spans across writing, zine-making, curation, and drama performance. In 2025, she collaborated with the Richard Charles Lee Canada–Hong Kong Library to curate Her Suitcase: A Voyage of Women Immigrants Exhibition. She has also published Two Nests – Love from Both, Amoments, and It Only Took a Suitcase. Two Nests, which shares the stories of divorced families, was later adapted into a stage play and performed at the HKSC Arts & Culture Centre, bringing community voices into the theatre.