Jessie Chaffee is the author of the novel Florence in Ecstasy, which was a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2017 and was translated into six languages. She received a Fulbright Grant to Italy to complete the novel, and she was the writer-in-residence at Florence University of the Arts. Her writing has been published in Literary Hub, Electric Literature, The Rumpus, and The Florentine, among others. She lives in New York City.