Jess Skultety

Jess Skultety (skull-teddy) 💀🧸 (she/her) is the author of THE GREAT TREE OF IRIS, an epic romantic fantasy (October 2025), as well as a poet and quilter. Her favorite writing subjects include strong women, found family, sapphic relationships, queer joy, and crafting. She is proudly bisexual and lives in New Jersey with her alpha reader husband and cat-shadow-writing buddy.

No, seriously, a cat named Amber owns her.

If she's not kissing said cat on her cute little forehead, you can pretty much always find Jess sipping iced coffee with oat milk, wearing noise-cancelling headphones, admiring fabric, writing fat rep, rewatching The Great British Bakeoff or Fleabag, playing video games, scanning library book sales and book shops, and typing furious lines into her phone that she'll hopefully use one day. Oh, and she loves purple, if you couldn’t tell (purple features prominently in her books).

Also, no AI, ever. Free Palestine.

But what you should really know is this: Jess put off writing for many years, mostly because she couldn't stand being on the computer for so many hours in addition to her day job. But it's worth it. And she's planning to write books for a long, long time. Thanks for being here.