Jessica Checkas Profile

I am an only child born and raised in Colorado. I've been telling stories for as long as I can remember and I always wanted to become a storyteller. I started writing drafts of plays and children's stories at around ten years of age, and teen novels at thirteen, one of which I am still working on eight years later.

I went to high school at Colorado Early Colleges Fort Collins, a program that lets students attend community college in high school. Through that school, I attended Front Range Community College, where I earned an associate degree in English. One of my poems, "The Mirror," was published in the FRCC anthology "Plains Paradox 2020."

I am currently a college student dual majoring in Creative Writing and Digital Arts at the University of Denver, and will graduate this March. I'm hoping to go into a graphic design, or a sound editing/video editing-related job after graduation, and I will continue to edit the fantasy, science fiction, and mystery novels and short stories I am working on.

In my free time, I enjoy pencil drawing, writing, and walking my terrier mix, Lily.