Jamison is the author of a collection of essays, The Empathy Exams, and a critical memoir, The Recovering. Her most recent book, a collection of essays, Make It Scream, Make It Burn, came out in September 2019. She has also written a novel, The Gin Closet, and her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, Oxford American, A Public Space, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Believer.