Jesikah Suggs, the writer, story editor, and co-producer behind Netflix’s ‘My Life With The Walter Boys,’ died at her home in Studio City, California, on August 18, 2026, following an eight-year battle with breast cancer. She was 32. Her family confirmed her death to Deadline on August 25.

Born March 2, 1994, in Dallas, Texas, Suggs earned a film degree from Baylor University before moving to Los Angeles, where she got her start interning on ‘Big Brother.’ She went on to work alongside her sister, writer and producer Liz Suggs, as an assistant to writer and producer Jason Katims, eventually contributing as a writer on Katims’s series ‘Parenthood.’ The two sisters became frequent collaborators throughout their careers, and Jesikah served as a producer on the 2019 special ‘The Kennedy Center Presents: Liz Suggs at Millennium Stage.’

Suggs became best known for her work on ‘My Life With The Walter Boys,’ the Netflix teen drama starring Nikki Rodriguez, Noah LaLonde, and Ashby Gentry. She wrote three episodes across the show’s first three seasons, served as story editor on ten Season 1 episodes, and co-produced eleven episodes across Seasons 2 and 3. She was actively writing for the show’s upcoming fourth season at the time of her death. Suggs also co-produced eight episodes and wrote one episode of the 2026 Amazon Prime series ‘It’s Not Like That,’ starring Scott Foley and Erinn Hayes, and wrote a 2022 episode of Katims’s series ‘As We See It.’

Suggs first revealed her cancer diagnosis publicly in November 2018, sharing updates on her treatment on Instagram, including a message at the midpoint of her chemotherapy expressing gratitude for the support of friends and family. Her cancer metastasized two years after her initial diagnosis, and she continued working steadily through years of subsequent treatment.

In a statement to Deadline, Suggs’s sister Liz said that through it all, Jesikah showed up to work every day, refusing to be defined by cancer, and that she endured every treatment with a smile and gratitude for the healthcare workers who cared for her. Liz added that her sister’s life would continue to bear fruit in the stories told by every writer she touched, saying that in a sense, she’ll still be writing for a very long time.

Suggs is remembered by colleagues and collaborators as a dedicated and resilient voice in television writing, whose work on ‘My Life With The Walter Boys’ connected with a wide teen and young-adult audience even as she faced her illness with remarkable determination.