Jessica Tekla Les is a Wisconsin-born family medicine doctor who gave breast cancer a run for its money at age 28 and 33. She studied international public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine before attending Stanford University School of Medicine. She moved north to complete her training at UCSF-Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency and continues her clinical work at Santa Rosa Community Health. Her writing has appeared in Literature and Medicine, Pulse, Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics and Kevinmd.com. She is a two-time reader in San Francisco's LitCrawl and performed a story live with The Nocturnists at The Shelton Theater in San Francisco. Jessica, her husband, David, and their two dogs, Luna and Olive, share a 138 year old farmhouse where she can frequently be found at work on her non-fiction book about navigating health care and life with chronic illness.