Summary
Jess Rinkeris the author of several acclaimed books for young readers, including picture book biographies and middle grade fiction. Her picture book biographyGloria Takes a Stand, which introduces young readers to feminist icon Gloria Steinem, was named aBank Street College Best Bookin 2020.Send a Girl!: The True Story of How Women Joined the FDNYwas nominated for theNew Jersey Library Association Children's Book Awardin 2024.
Jess’s middle grade novels includeThe Dare Sistersand its sequel,The Dare Sisters: Shipwrecked!, which earned a nomination for thePennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Awardin 2024. Additional middle grade novels includeThe Hike to Home, Out of Time: Lost on the Titanic,and Monolith, which is currently in the running for the Whippoorwill Award. Determined to not be held to a single age-category of w88 online sports betting, Jess has also published creative nonfiction and numerous articles for theatre, travel, and parenting magazines, and most recently had an essay accepted into the anthology Spinning Toward the Sun, “A guidebook for writers and other creatives, looking for help and hope in troubled times”.
Beyond her books, Jess’s w88 online sports betting has been recognized with numerous literary honors. In 2024, her novel excerptThe Girl in the WindowwonFirst PlaceinHunger Mountain: The KatherinePaterson Prize. She was also selected as aWriter in Residenceat the Weymouth Center for the Arts and in 2024, she was awarded a sponsorship to attend theRebecca Dykes Writers andHighlights Foundationprogram onw88 online sports betting Through Trauma to Empower.
Jess holds a B.A. in Social Welfare from Bloomsburg University and an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts, where she received multiple academic scholarships for her work in short stories and creative nonfiction. She was honored with theExcellence in Teaching and Learning Awardin 2021 for online course development and teaching English Composition and Creative w88 online sports betting. She currently lives and writes in the mountains of West Virginia with her beloved, author Joe McGee.
Education
- MFA, Vermont College of Fine Arts
- B.A., Social Welfare, Bloomsburg University