Jess Lewis.

they/them

Jess is a trans non-binary and pansexual writer, designer, and organizer who hails from the hollers of Western North Carolina. They currently live in the deep South, where they explore futures of liberation and how to get there. 

Their speculative fiction showcases character-based stories of trauma recovery in abstract, lyrical, and often fantastical stories. Recently they’ve focused on stories envisioning rural queer futures through ecofeminist science fiction.

They also work with marginalized communities, especially queer communities, through a variety of hands-on workshops that aim to process and envision futures. They’ve facilitated well over two hundred workshops, ranging from subversive cross-stitch to creating visions of personal utopias. Hundreds of participants have shared space, conversation, and creativity. 

 When they’re not imagining queer utopias, designing future tech, or facilitating capacity-building workshops, they’re organizing programming for The Outer Dark Symposium on the Greater Weird.