I write the women we need but can't find.

Fiction centered on women with agency — complex, capable, fully human, never ornamental.

Works

Pinwheels book cover

Pinwheels

Author

Published 2017

Available here.

Alone & Yet Together book cover

Alone & Yet Together

Contributing Writer, Poetry

Published 2023

Available here.

Bite the Pen podcast cover art

Bite the Pen Podcast

Host, Writer

2019 – 2022

Available free here.

WiPs

Novels

Snow-covered bunker entrance

Speculative thriller novel.

In final revision before agent submission.

Examines redemption, secrecy, isolation, and the consequences of discovery.

Old diary with illustration

Speculative historical mystery novel.

Draft in progress.

Examines famous gold rush song, historical alternatives, and the danger of uncovering buried truth.

Woman in a conductor's uniform by a train

Speculative sci-fi YA novel.

Draft in progress.

Time travel, a train, a mysterious conductor, and a plan to save the world.

Scripts

Two women in action with exploding donuts

Action female buddy comedy screenplay.

Treatment in progress.

Two women and a dog posed in front of Christmas decorations

Christmas TV movie.

Treatment in progress.

About

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J. Hanson writes stories about women who refuse to decorate the margins. Her work centers consequence, agency, and the complexity of female power—often through speculative, intimate, or quietly subversive lenses.

She holds a BA in Creative Writing and has spent years shaping narrative across mediums: fiction, screenwriting, design, and story architecture. She draws from an enduring sense of absence in the way women are diminished, and builds worlds where they are not.

Originally from the U.S. and now living in Berlin, she is drafting her first novel, a speculative techno thriller set in an isolated research facility. She is interested in character-driven tension, women making hard choices, and the intersection of vulnerability and authority.

When she isn’t writing, she designs, builds small worlds in bricks and pixels, and imagines futures where women take up the entire frame.

Contact

For all inquiries, please reach out by email.

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