Jess Ruliffson is an Eisner-nominated cartoonist. Her debut graphic novel, Invisible Wounds, was published by Fantagraphics Books in 2022. Her comic, Tenderness and Brutality, was nominated for an Online Journalism Award in 2023. 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, Wildsam, and Wilson Quarterly. She teaches courses on the graphic novel at Boston University and comics studio practices at The Sequential Artists Workshop.