Jass Richards

Jass Richards has, surprisingly enough (or not), a Master’s degree in Philosophy and for a (very) brief time was a stand-up comic (now she’s more of a sprawled-on-the-couch comic). Despite these attributes, she has received four Ontario Arts Council grants.

This Will Not Look Good on My Resume was shortlisted for the Rubery Award (and reportedly made one reader snort root beer out her nose), and both TurboJetslams: Proof #29 of the Non-Existence of God (arguably the perfect cottage-warming gift) and License to Do That are on Goodreads' list of Fiction Books That Opened Your Eyes To A Social Or Political Issue. Excerpts from her 12 books have been included in anthologies and on websites, and "Supply Teacher from Hell", a one-woman comedy, was performed in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

She also writes issue-driven speculative fiction (as Peg Tittle) and literary prose and poetry (as Chris Wind) and, altogether, has managed to find publishers (in Canada, the U.S., the UK, and Australia) for over 30 books.