Jessie Thompson
“Looking into women’s life writing and the implications of Carrie Fisher’s instruction, ‘Take your broken heart, turn it into art’”
© Natasha PszenickiJessie Thompson is the Arts Editor of The Independent. She has been an arts journalist for a decade, working as a writer, editor and critic across books, theatre, visual arts, dance, TV and film. At the Indy, she writes and edits reviews, columns, features and interviews for the Culture section, and is the author of the weekly Indy/Arts newsletter. Her profile interviews have ranged from Spice Girl Melanie C to Sylvia Plath’s daughter Frieda Hughes. Between 2016 and 2022, she worked at the Evening Standard, latterly as Deputy Arts Editor and one of the paper’s two theatre critics. She has appeared on Radio 4's Today Programme and Woman’s Hour, as well as chairing panels for Charleston Festival and the Royal Opera House. In 2020, she was selected from almost 1000 applicants for a place on the London Library Emerging Writers Programme.
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