Jen Finelli

Jen Finelli is an ex-military physician, wilderness medicine fellow, and former sexual assault medical forensic examiner who now brings medicines to indigenous people in the jungles of Paraguay; her books help fund this and other life-saving projects at becominghero.byjenfinelli.com. While her biomedical background lends some "hardness" to her science fiction, and her history degree fleshes out her cultural fantasy, the real meat of her stories comes from her real-life adventures: she's ridden a motorcycle in a monsoon, swum with sharks, crawled under barbed wire in the mud, and hiked everywhere from hidden coral deserts and island mountains to steaming underground urban tunnels littered with poetry. She was once locked inside a German nunnery, and another time had to find her way through swamp-filled Korean foothills dotted with graveyards on Friday the 13th under a full moon without a flashlight. On her quest to rescue stories often swallowed by the shadows, she’s delivered babies, cradled the dying, haunted street corners with broken women, and interviewed Senators. She now struggles with constant pain and weakness from multiple chronic illnesses, but she hopes that's just part of her origin story--because when she grows up, she wants to become a superhero.

Jen would love to have you along on her journey of becoming (and give you a free book) at byjenfinelli.com/you-want-heroes-and-fairies!