Jessie Stephens is an author, podcaster and broadcaster.

She is the author of the internationally best-selling book Heartsick. In Australia, Heartsick was shortlisted for the ABIA non-fiction book of the year. She made the Top 10 in Booktopia’s best books of 2021 and placed in Dymocks’ Top 100 for 2021. The Australian called her Australia’s “next big thing”. Her second book, Something Bad is Going to Happen, was released in August 2023. She also worked as a writer and producer on the Binge series Strife.

Jessie is an executive editor at Mamamia, and co-host of the podcasts Mamamia Out Loud and Cancelled. Mamamia Out Loud is an award-winning thrice weekly podcast that is among Australia’s most listened-to shows. The podcast has been toured around the country, in front of tens of thousands of Australians.

Jessie has also hosted podcasts True Crime Conversations, Book Club and The Delivery Room. She has been interviewed on several podcasts in Australia and internationally, including No Filter, Matt and Alex All Day Breakfast and Tonts Podcast. She wrote and hosted a three-part series for a US podcast network as part of book promotion, titled ‘The Beginning of The End’.

Jessie is a regular on ABC radio and Weekend Breakfast as well as Channel 10’s The Project, and her work has appeared in Body and Soul, Vogue, and LitHub.