Jessica Danger is an Assistant Professor of English, the Director of Education at Dead Reckoning Collective, and the Joshua Tree Writers Retreat Co-Founder. She holds an MFA from Bennington College where she was also awarded the Nonfiction Alumni Fellowship in 2025. She has been nominated for the Lucy Grealy Nonfiction Prize, a finalist for the Iowa Review Nonfiction Prize and also the 2024 Literary Awards. Her essays have been published widely, including The Sun and Oh, Reader. No Heroic Measures is her first book. She’s on Instagram at @MamaDanger.