Jessica is a writer of young adult and adult fantasy fiction and legal writing instructor. Her atmospheric fiction spins gothic tropes together with propulsive plot. She is a graduate of Yale University, University of Oxford, and Stanford Law School. After a decade as a Manhattan federal prosecutor pursuing money launderers, gangsters, and art thieves, she now teaches legal writing at the University of Houston Law Center. She lives in Houston with her husband, two children, and a lazy little dog named Sookie.