Jessica Danger is an adjunct instructor, 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. No Heroic Measures is her first book. She’s on Instagram at @MamaDanger and online at www.Jessica-Danger.com.