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Topic: Crafting the Personal into Story
■ 9:00am – 9:30am Networking
■ 9:30am – 11:00am Guest Speaker
Jessica Danger is an Assistant Professor of English at Vanguard University, the Director of Education at Dead Reckoning Collective, and Joshua Tree Writers Retreat Co-Founder. She holds an MFA from Bennington College where she was also awarded the Nonfiction Alumni Fellowship in 2025. She was nominated for the Lucy Grealy Nonfiction Prize, a finalist for the Iowa Review Nonfiction Prize and also the 2024 Literary Awards. Her work has been published widely, with recent publications in The Sun and in Oh, Reader and her memoir, No Heroic Measures, is out in Spring 2026 with the Santa Fe Writers Project. She lives in Southern California with her husband, Keith Dow, and their family. She’s online at Jessica-Danger.com and on Instagram at @MamaDanger.