Jess Stork


About Me
More of My Involvement in the #Kidlit Community:
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Jaye Robin Brown Interviews Me
Marc Tyler Nobleman's Visit to the Library... Where I dress up

I have always been a writer. In the sixth grade, I penned my first query letter to a publisher on loose leaf paper with the help of The Writer’s Marketplace. After writing it carefully in cursive with a number two pencil, I submitted the letter with a rhyming environmental poem to an address in the Sunday comics.
I even included my school photo.
Since then, I’ve had lots of other fun writing experiences, like seeing my poem ride on buses in northern Virginia, placing second in the Arlington Public Library Short Story Contest and journeying with various misfit characters through funny middle grade stories.
Currently, I work as a children’s librarian in Northern Virginia, where I am surrounded by stories all day and create programs like escape rooms, augmented reality book scavenger hunts and poetry carnivals. I've also been an art teacher, weaving a teetering pile of art supplies on a cart through the halls of a Cleveland school, a cafeteria lady, a bridal dress consultant, an art museum educator and a coffee barista. I once dressed up as a Picasso painting to represent the Cleveland Art Museum at a street festival-- and had trouble figuring how to get out of the costume afterwards.
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I am a proud SCBWI member and have served as the Consultation Co-Chair for the Mid Atlantic Fall Conference in the past. In any spare time left, I spend with my husband and chasing after my two daughters.
Up on mic as a featured reader.


My family and me at an Art Attack at the community center.