Jessica Anderson (pseudonym of Jessica Bloom) is a UK writer and academic who published a number of works of short fiction in UK and US small press magazines during the early 1990's, appearing in <i>The Third Alternative</i>, <i>Rosebud</i> and elsewhere. She was also given an honourable mention in The <i>Year's Best Fantasy and Horror</i> 1994. She has since published articles and papers on Arabic literature.