Jess Ruliffson is an Eisner-nominated cartoonist. Her comic series with the Boston Globe, True Stories from an ICU was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist in illustrated reporting. Her debut graphic novel, Invisible Wounds, was published by Fantagraphics Books in 2022. Her work has appeared in The Boston Globe, BuzzFeed, Freeman's Tale of Two Americas, The Gainesville Sun, The Nib, The Oxford American, Pantheon Books, VQR, The Washington Post, Wilson Quarterly, and elsewhere. She teaches courses in creative writing and the graphic novel at Boston University and comics studio practices at The Sequential Artists Workshop.