The Wild Woman Press is a growing collection of letters, invitations and noticings drawn from everyday life.
Things that don’t look like much, but somehow take up space.
Moments that feel larger while you’re inside them.
Memories that don’t shrink when you return to them.
My name is Jessica Matthews and I write about ordinary life as I’m living it.
Most of my writing begins with noticing.
I’ve always written.
Secret diaries. Half-filled journals. Notes saved into my phone.
But when my grandfather passed away and my grandmother moved into a home, I felt the pull to write differently.
More deliberately.
More closely.
As though I was gently collecting pieces of life while they were still here.
But it wasn’t the big things I was drawn to, it was the small things.
Relocating foxgloves in the garden.
Collecting the mail.
Watching the light moving across the floor.
Moments that don’t look like stories until you sit with them.
I started writing notes from these observations. They slowly grew into letters.
At first for my daughters.
Then for the women who gathered with me in meditation circles.
Eventually, for anyone who found their way to them.
Over time, those letters became a body of work.
And The Wild Woman Press became a home for them.
There isn’t much distance between my life and my writing.
“The Wild” isn’t wilderness, for me. It’s everyday life - unfolding, unpredictable, sometimes tender, sometimes uncertain.
The place where things grow without being forced.
Everything published here comes from that space.
My life, as I’m living it.
- Jessica Matthews