Jessica Pryde.

Our final guest speaker for this year’s romance panel is Jessica Pryde, author, editor, podcast host, and lover of love stories - especially ones with a happy ever after. Seriously, you guys, this panel is going to be fantastic.

Jessica Pryde is a reader, writer, and librarian currently living in Southern Arizona. She is also a contributing editor for Book Riot, where she co-hosts the When In Romance podcast and writes about all things bookish. Her first book, Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever Afters, celebrates the way Black readers and writers have found themselves in romantic literature and critiques the ways in which they haven’t, all with an eye for the future.