Jess Wells is the author of seven novels and five books of short stories, as well as the editor of anthologies of social commentary. She is the winner of the Nautilus Silver Prize for Small Press Fiction with a Social Impact, Bronze Winner of the Foreword Indies Awards, a four-time finalist for the national Lambda Literary Awards, a member of the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival Hall of Fame, and a recipient of a San Francisco Arts Commission Grant for Literature. Her books are sold through all online distributors and her audio books can be found on Spotify, iTunes, and Audible, among other locations. Her work has been included in more than three dozen anthologies and literary journals, reprinted in the United Kingdom and translated into Italian and Dutch. She has taught at literary conferences and teaching locations across the U.S.