{"id":2,"date":"2010-09-28T13:28:51","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T17:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writtengesstures.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-06-30T12:33:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T16:33:22","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.writtenGESStures.com\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About GESS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"568\" src=\"http:\/\/www.writtengesstures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201101_091622-1024x568.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-624\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.writtengesstures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201101_091622-1024x568.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.writtengesstures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201101_091622-300x166.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.writtengesstures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201101_091622-768x426.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.writtengesstures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201101_091622-1536x852.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.writtengesstures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201101_091622-2048x1137.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/www.writtengesstures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/20201101_091622-850x472.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A little girl from a little country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A young miss in a busy metropolis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A happy woman in a peculiar place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I am a writer, so I write.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Characters fill my mind to overflowing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I will share every one before long.<\/p>\n<p>GESS is a fiction writer of stories about women thriving. She is a graduate of the University of Washington (English and Spanish Lit BAs) and the University of Texas at Austin (Latin American Lit MA). She was the winner of the 2020 Yellow Bird Editors First Page contest and finalist in the 2025 Fugue Prose Contest and 2015 Writers\u2019 League of Texas Manuscript Contest (Romance category). She is a member of Women&#8217;s Fiction Writers Association, the Armadillo Authors Society and Pen &amp; Fork writers groups, Writers\u2019 League of Texas, and Waco Calligraphy Guild. You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/gesswrites.bsky.social\">BlueSky<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little girl from a little country. A young miss in a busy metropolis. A happy woman in a peculiar place. I am a writer, so I write. Characters fill my mind to overflowing. I will share every one before long. GESS is a fiction writer of stories about women thriving. She is a graduate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writtenGESStures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writtenGESStures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writtenGESStures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writtenGESStures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writtenGESStures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.writtenGESStures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":729,"href":"http:\/\/www.writtenGESStures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writtenGESStures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}