Jess D. Taylor teaches English at Santa Rosa Junior College and teaches in the Muir Wood residential treatment program. She is the former editor of Made Local Magazine, and her essays have appeared in Huff Post, Bon Appetit, Eater SF, SmokeLong Quarterly, Creative Nonfiction, Scrawl Place, The Citron Review, Little Patuxent Review, Pidgeonholes, KQED, Superstition Review, Mutha Magazine, The Sun’s Readers Write, and elsewhere. 

Reach her at gyrlwryter@gmail.com