Who is Jessica Liese?

n.b. this is quite a different question from "who is John Galt?"

Jessica Liese is many things to many people. Reader, writer, blogger, Brooklynite, pioneer of the nicemodernist movement, white-collar punk-rocker, reluctant superhero...the list goes on. Suffice it to say she's trying to bring Renaissance women back into vogue, and maybe even into Vogue.

Jess (you can call her Jess, most people do) has written for a number of awesome publications, including Publishers' Weekly, the Daily Hampshire Gazette in Northampton, Mass.; Black Table, Digital Brooklyn, and the sadly now-defunct Winter Mittens webzine. When she is padding her CV, she also overinflates the importance of angry letters that have been printed in the Boston Globe and the New York Press. She also hosted the Barbes Reading Series in Park Slope from fall 2005-summer 2006.

Jess is currently working diligently on her first novel. Don't disturb her - she's actually making progress this time.

Talking in the third person exhausts and annoys her. So she's going to stop now.

(Photo by Daryl Lang.)