Jess Hartley is an editor, novelist, game designer, and fiction writer. She has written content for more than 50 roleplaying game products including products in both the New and Classic World of Darkness game lines, Exalted Second Edition, Scion, Blue Rose,and 7th Sea.. She is half of the team behind Mad Muse Studios, a private press whose first publication was an anthology of her writings entitled “Monsters I Have Known”.

Jess dwells in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, The Viking, and a menagerie of other interesting creatures.