Jessica Grant is a Canadian writer born on May 31, 1972, in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. She is renowned for her debut novel Come, Thou Tortoise, which won the 2009 Winterset Award, the 2009 Books in Canada First Novel Award, and the 2009 Amazon.ca First Novel Award. The novel was also short-listed for the 2010 Canadian Library Association's Young Adult Book Award and was long-listed for CBC's Canada Reads 2011 competition.

In 2003, she won the Journey Prize for her short story "My Husband's Jump", later included in her 2005 short story collection Making Light of Tragedy. Jessica Grant is a member of the Burning Rock Collective, comprising writers from Newfoundland and Labrador, including Michael Winter and Lisa Moore.

Besides writing, Grant has worked as an educator, teaching creative writing and short fiction at Memorial University of Newfoundland from 2007 to 2009. She was also a faculty member at Piper's Frith Writing Retreat in Swift Current, Newfoundland, in 2009, the BANFF CENTRE in 2010, and served as writer-in-residence at Memorial University of Newfoundland for the winter 2011 semester.

Jessica Grant currently resides in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.