J. Federle writes. Writes and edits. After leaving Kentucky for grad school in England, she earned an MA in Romantic Poetry and started her own editing business. Working mainly for graduate students, she read thousands of dissertations: physics and finance, policy and medicine, analyses on salsa dancing and weird bacteria in cow guts.
After one misplaced comma too many, she snapped and started writing her own genre-blend romances. She’s a sucker for misunderstood monsters, found family, and unusual hauntings. Her short stories and poetry have appeared in The Saturday Evening Post, which her dad recognized, and in The Threepenny Review, The NoSleep Podcast, Strange Horizons, and several other places her dad “has never heard of” but was proud about nonetheless.
Today, she lives in Lima, Peru. If you think another country has better food, she’ll fight you. It’ll be a cook-off. She’ll bring the booze.
Audiobooks are her jam. Some authors that left her breathless lately are Kate Alice Marshall, Krystal Sutherland, Allison Saft, Catriona Ward, V. E. Schwab, T. Kingfisher, Victor LaValle, and Rivers Solomon.
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J. Federle is the odd author behind the Author-Oddity Newsletter. She writes romantic horror and sci-fi starring monsters that are (sometimes) gentle. She’s been published in The Saturday Evening Post, which her dad recognized, and in The Threepenny Review, The NoSleep Podcast, Strange Horizons, and several other places her dad “has never heard of” but was proud about nonetheless. For now, she lives in Lima, Peru, where she misses thunderstorms but loves the sea.