Jesselyn Cook

Jesselyn Cook is a Canadian journalist and non-fiction writer. She is a Nieman Fellow.

Career

Cook was initially a tech-focused journalist who wrote about the Internet's "dark corners". She has been researching and writing on the QAnon conspiracy theory since 2020. In 2024, Cook published The Quiet Damage, a book which profiles five QAnon believers, and how those beliefs impacted their families. The book won the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award in 2023.