Jenica Heintzelman is a Guatemalan-American photographer and videographer from Orlando, Florida. She attended Brigham Young University where she completed her BFA degree in photography and documentary film. Jenica later received her MFA in photography from the Hartford Art School’s International Limited-Residency program. 

Jenica was awarded the Aperture + Google Creator Labs Photo Fund in 2023 and named by the British Journal of Photography for the "2021 Ones to Watch: Community". Her work has been exhibited internationally at C/O Berlin and BFOTO Festival in Spain.

With the support of the Penumbra Foundation and MUUS Collection, she produced a risograph publication of Down a Stream as part of their residency program in 2022. Her work explores themes of vulnerability, trauma and the notion of healing.