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 fiction. She’s big on genre-blending, and she’s a sucker for found family, misunderstood monsters, and dark fairytale retellings. She got to be a mentee under Jodie Lynn Zdrok in 2021, and she’s been published in The Saturday Evening Post, which her dad recognized, and in The Threepenny Review, The NoSleep Podcast, 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.