Jessica Minyard is an award-winning young adult author, poet, ISTJ, Sagittarius, and boy mom who lives and writes from the bluegrass.

She has an MFA from Lindenwood University and her short fiction and poetry has appeared in Flash Fiction Magazine, Vamp Cat Magazine, salt + vinegar zine, Nightingale and Sparrow, Re-Side Zine, Taco Bell Quarterly, Kaleidotrope, and anthologized in War Crimes Against the Uterus: Poems of Resistance, Girls Just Wanna Have Fundamental Rights, and Bluebonnet: A Romance Anthology for Uvalde.

She also writes adult romance under the super-secret pen name, J.L. Minyard.