Jess Wells

Biography

Jess Wells is the author of six novels and five volumes of short stories, as well as being the recipient of a San Francisco Arts Commission Grant for Literature, a member of the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival Hall of Fame, a four-time finalist for the national Lambda Literary Award and a finalist for the 2020 Foreword Reviews Indies Award. Her work is included in dozens of anthologies and has been translated into Dutch and Italian, as well as republished in British editions. She regularly blogs on under-represented women, and the writing life, at http://www.jesswells.com

Where to find Jess Wells online

Books

The Mandrake Broom
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 88,720. Language: English. Published: September 6, 2016 . Categories: Fiction » Historical » Medieval, Fiction » Women's fiction » Feminist
The Mandrake Broom – called a “well-researched, complex, and exciting historical novel” – dramatizes the valiant efforts of a group of women determined to save medical knowledge during the witch-burning times in Europe 1465-1540 and answers the question: what would have happened if the wicca had fought back?