Jess Dukes: Managing Editor

Want some tough love? She's your girl. As Managing Editor of Contemporary Press, Jess believes that hot, juicy pulp has hardly anything to do with current trends in literature, and she avoids using terms like "writerly" and "readerly" at all costs. She takes on all submissions, decides which ones to whip into shape, and makes a helluva Gin and Tonic along the way. She's also the author of CP's 2003 Down Girl.