Jennica Harper

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Jennica Harper is a Canadian television writer and producer, most noted as a WGC Screenwriting Award winner and two-time Canadian Screen Award nominee for her work on the television sitcom Jann . [1]

She won the WGC award in 2020 for the episode "The Big House". [2] She was also a WGC winner in the Tweens and Teens category in 2016 for the Some Assembly Required episode "Rocket with a Pocket". [3]

At the Canadian Screen Awards, she was a nominee for Best Writing in a Comedy Series at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards in 2021 for "What Did Jann Do", [4] and at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022 for "No Drama". [5] She also previously received a nomination for Best Writing in a Dramatic Program or Limited Series at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019 for Cardinal . [6]

She has also published four books of poetry. [7] Her collection Wood was shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 2014, [8] and Bounce House was a finalist for the ReLit Awards in 2020. [9] Her other poetry collections were The Octopus and Other Poems (2006) [10] and What It Feels Like for a Girl (2008). [7] She is also known for "The Sally Draper Poems", a poetry sequence she wrote in the character of Sally Draper from the television series Mad Men for the literary magazine Numéro Cinq . [11]

She is an alumna of the creative writing program at the University of British Columbia. [11]

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