J K Knauss

J. K. (Jessica) Knauss graduated as valedictorian of her class with multiple honors from Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts. She first seriously studied the works of Alfonso X, el Sabio, for her MA in medieval studies at the University of Leeds, England. She earned her PhD in medieval Spanish literature from Brown University with a dissertation that has been published as Law and Order in Medieval Spain: Alfonsine Legislation and the Cantigas de Santa Maria. In the course of her academic...See more

J. K. (Jessica) Knauss graduated as valedictorian of her class with multiple honors from Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts. She first seriously studied the works of Alfonso X, el Sabio, for her MA in medieval studies at the University of Leeds, England. She earned her PhD in medieval Spanish literature from Brown University with a dissertation that has been published as Law and Order in Medieval Spain: Alfonsine Legislation and the Cantigas de Santa Maria. In the course of her academic career, she has studied and researched in Córdoba, Sevilla, and Salamanca, Spain. She's the author of the short story collection, Our Lady's Troubadour and Other Miraculous Tales in Honor of Alfonso X, el Sabio (Encircle Publications, 2021), as well as another tribute to Alfonso X's literary legacy, the critically acclaimed medieval epic Seven Noble Knights (Encircle Publications, 2020). Her 2012 translation of The Abencerraje has been adopted as a college textbook, she contributed a story to the bestselling anthology We All Fall Down: Stories of Plague and Resilience (2020), and published a one-act play based on a Zamoran legend, Trout Riot (2020). Writing as Jessica Knauss, she's also the author of the "quirky, intriguing" novella Tree/House (2008), "exuberant, never cloying" Dusk Before Dawn: Poems (2010), the contemporary paranormal Awash in Talent (Kindle Press, 2016), and the science fantasy novella The Atwells Avenue Anomaly (2021). Many of her contemporary short stories and flash fiction have been published in literary magazines. She collected these short works in Unpredictable Worlds: Stories (2015), which has been compared to the works of Bradbury, Kipling, Saki, and O. Henry. Her translation of Lidia Falcón's Camino sin retorno was published as No Turning Back (Loose Leaves Publishing, 2013). Visit her website, www.JessicaKnauss.com. See less