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]