[4][5][6] Jerome is a co-founder of Canadian Women In Literary Arts (CWILA),[7][8][9] and also serves as the poetry editor for Geist.
[19] Jerome's work touches on many subjects including sexuality, friendship, community, ecological exigencies, and the local, particularly the people and places of her East and South Vancouver neighbourhoods.
[20] Gillian Jerome founded CWILA in 2012 as a response to what she saw as unequal representations of gender and race in literary communities in Canada.
The non-profit organization works to instill motivation in the literary and review community to create equal coverage and representation.
The themes that come up in her writing include feminism, motherhood, environmentalism, women's rights, housing politics, social justice and community.
[34] In 2008 the book Hope in Shadows by Jerome and Brad Cran was released through Arsenal Pulp Press and the Pivot Legal Society that compiled 35 different stories attached to winning images from the photo contest.
They wrote about the traumas, abuse and mental illness but also friendship, laughter and love, which were reoccurring themes in the stories of the images.
The stories capture the lives of First Nations people who survived residential schools, individuals coping with addictions, and others overcoming loss of loved ones.