Jess is a person who lives in Central Pennsylvania and believes orange and pink look good together. She collects blue rocks, spools of ribbon, and 29th birthdays.
Once upon a time, she went to college in a town named Indiana, Pennsylvania, where she read a lot of books. Now she lives in her hometown, about an hour from Harrisburg, where she reads a lot of books. (But not as many as she did in college.)

She survives almost solely on sugar in its myriad of forms... cane sugar, beet sugar, sugar sugar, and high fructose corn syrup.

She is young enough to have found it riotously funny when her little sister didn't know a record player needed a needle in order to function, but old enough to be offended when youngsters don't recognize cassette tapes.