Jess Wells of the San Francisco Writer's Union reads on this author video podcast. Biography: Jess Wells is the author of 13 volumes, including the new historical novel, The Mandrake Broom (Firebrand, 2007). Wells was recently awarded a San Francisco Arts Commission Grant for Literature and she is a three-time finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Her short stories and essays are included in more than two dozen literary anthologies and journals, included in university curricula and published internationally.