Jess is the founder of Lizard Ink Maps. Through her cartography work, she discovered a passion for helping authors create beautiful books. As a published author with titles from Penguin Random House, Audible, Scholastic, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, she knows what it's like to work on a book from both the writing and illustration/design arenas.

An artist from childhood, she has worked on multiple major projects in the last decade as an illustrator. Her illustrations and maps have been published in NYT bestsellers, independent titles, and titles from Penguin Random House, Scholastic, Harper Collins, Tor, and foreign publishers.