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If You Loved Me, You Would Know is a defiant debut essay collection about the stories we tell to survive—and what it costs to finally tell the truth. With conviction and restraint, Jessica Ciencin Henriquez writes into the fractures of a life: the unraveling of love, the complexities of motherhood, the weight of expectation, and the long, often invisible return to self.
These essays illuminate the universal experience of relationship, messy, contradictory, and deeply human. Henriquez resists easy or comfortable craft instead offering an unflinching look at what it means to reckon with your own life. What emerges is a portrait of a woman choosing to see clearly, even when it hurts.
At once intimate and expansive, If You Loved Me, You Would Know is about truth—not the version we curate, but the one we arrive at after we’ve scorched earth, when there is nothing left to hide behind.
Jessica Ciencin Henriquez is a Colombian-American writer, editor, and author of the poetry collection Burn After Reading. She holds an MFA from Columbia University, where she studied creative nonfiction. Her essays have been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, TIME, The Sun, Button Poetry, Teen Vogue, Parents, and elsewhere.
In addition to teaching memoir and personal essay workshops, her ghostwriting and editorial portfolio encompasses graphic novels, children’s books, autobiographical novels, memoirs, and hundreds of essays. She lives in Southern California with her son.
*PRE-ORDERED BOOKS WILL ARRIVE ON NOVEMBER 11th, 2026
If You Loved Me, You Would Know is a defiant debut essay collection about the stories we tell to survive—and what it costs to finally tell the truth. With conviction and restraint, Jessica Ciencin Henriquez writes into the fractures of a life: the unraveling of love, the complexities of motherhood, the weight of expectation, and the long, often invisible return to self.
These essays illuminate the universal experience of relationship, messy, contradictory, and deeply human. Henriquez resists easy or comfortable craft instead offering an unflinching look at what it means to reckon with your own life. What emerges is a portrait of a woman choosing to see clearly, even when it hurts.
At once intimate and expansive, If You Loved Me, You Would Know is about truth—not the version we curate, but the one we arrive at after we’ve scorched earth, when there is nothing left to hide behind.
Jessica Ciencin Henriquez is a Colombian-American writer, editor, and author of the poetry collection Burn After Reading. She holds an MFA from Columbia University, where she studied creative nonfiction. Her essays have been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, TIME, The Sun, Button Poetry, Teen Vogue, Parents, and elsewhere.
In addition to teaching memoir and personal essay workshops, her ghostwriting and editorial portfolio encompasses graphic novels, children’s books, autobiographical novels, memoirs, and hundreds of essays. She lives in Southern California with her son.
*PRE-ORDERED BOOKS WILL ARRIVE ON NOVEMBER 11th, 2026