JESSICA LOWELL MASON is a performer, scholar, educator, social justice activist-advocate, public speaker, and writer. Between 2012 and 2016, Jess taught composition courses at Spoon River College, Carl Sandburg College, and Western Illinois University, where she was a master's graduate student and teaching assistant in the Department of English. Since her return to New York in 2016, Jess has worked as an actor at Shakespeare in Delaware Park (Macbeth), a script-developer for Ujima Theatre Co. (Free Fred Brown), a teaching artist at Just Buffalo Literary Center (Re-/Un-Writing the Identity), an assistant stage manager at the Jewish Repertory Theatre (4000 Miles), and Interim Director of Digital Publishing at Prometheus Books. Between 2017 and 2018, Jess served as House Manager at the Jewish Repertory Theatre and as Rights Associate at Prometheus Books. In August 2018, she will begin the PhD program in Global Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University at Buffalo. In 2014, Jess was awarded the Gloria Anzaldúa Rhetorician Award by the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Her poems, articles, and reviews have appeared in a number of journals, including The Comstock Review, Lambda Literary, Gender Focus, Sinister Wisdom, Lavender Review, IthacaLit, and The Feminist Wire. She is the co-founder of a feminist mental health literacy organization, Madwomen in the Attic, and the mother of two ninja-daughters.