speculative fiction writer
Publications
Forthcoming
"Ecdysis"
Weird Horror, March 2024
Short Stories
"Hollow Bones"
Chromophobia - Strangehouse Books, 2022
Bram Stoker Awards Nominee - Superior Achievement in an Anthology
"Eleanora"
Bourbon Penn, 2022
"Sweet Water"
Beyond the Veil - Ghost Orchid Press, 2022
"After the Bonfire"
Curiouser Magazine, 2021
"Plant Baby"
Brilliant Flash Fiction, 2021
"Desert Animals at Night"
Fusion Fragment, 2021
"When the Last King Dies"
Fall into Fantasy Anthology, 2020
"Fur and Feathers"
Metaphorosis Magazine, 2019
"Sunday"
Ghost Parachute, 2017
Poetry
Appearances
upcoming
past
Book Launch
Land of Outcasts by Josh Gauthier
April 27, 2020 at 7:00 pm
Local Writers Read – The Symbolic and the Real
November 22, 2019 at 6:00pm
Quiet City Books
97 Lisbon Street, Lewiston, Maine
Stonecoast Reading
July 11, 2019 at 7:00pm
Dingle Library
Green Street, Dingle, County Kerry, Ireland

About
Jess Koch is an author of short stories, flash fiction, poetry, and is currently working on a novel. She enjoys writing cross-genre with a focus on horror, speculative, and weird fiction.
Her stories have been published in Metaphorosis Magazine, Fusion Fragment, Bourbon Penn, and many others. She holds an MFA from the Stonecoast Writers’ Program where she concentrated in popular fiction.
Jess grew up on an island off the coast of Maine and her work is deeply influenced by the fishing villages, jagged coastline, and dense forests of her childhood. She now lives in a pre-civil war colonial somewhere in New England with her partner, dog, and probably a few ghosts.
You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram for updates on upcoming events and publications.