Jessica Flayser was born in 1996 in Manhattan, New York City. Her parents immigrated from Johannesburg to New York during the Apartheid and remained in the city until moving their family back home in the early 2000s. As a result, Jessica spent her adolescent years living between Johannesburg and New York City, gaining both her formal and cultural education from her experience. After receiving her Bachelor's in English from Brooklyn College, Jessica continued her work in high fashion retail, which drove her to release the break-out culture podcast J By Day. Following the success of the podcast, Jessica ventured back to her roots as a writer, inspiring her first published work of literature "Beach, City, Villages".
