Jess Cheng is a Toronto-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.

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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.