About Me

Jessica Tremblay is a Canadian haiku poet and cartoonist, best known as the creator of Old Pond Comics. Originally from Québec, she began writing haiku in her teens and published her first collections, Le sourire de l’épouvantail (2003) and Les saisons de l’épouvantail (2004), with Les Éditions David.

Her haiku poems appeared in several anthologies and were exhibited in museums, art galleries and public spaces. Her award-winning haiku "late for work / cherry petals / in my hair" was sculpted on a rock at the VanDusen Botanical Gardens.

In 2007, she launched Old Pond Comics as a playful and educational fusion of haiku and comics. Her comics appeared in international haiku journals and online. She received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the British Columbia Arts Council to expand the “haiku-comic” form.

In recent years, Jessica expanded into electronic literature and hybrid forms. In 2022 she was part of the ILINU/ILIDI digital literature incubator, collaborating with Mexican poet Marjha Paulino on a generative, multimedia work that was featured in the Electronic Literature Organization’s “(un)linked” exhibition".

 She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.