Alisa Kennedy Jones is the publisher of Empress Editions, an innovative independent press dedicated to amplifying the voices of midlife women. She is the bestselling author of Gotham Girl, Interrupted, a collection of comedic essays about living with epilepsy that became a breakout in the field of narrative medicine. Her TEDx talk on creativity, electricity, and the brain has been viewed around the world, and her writing has been featured by NPR and in the Academy Award-nominated documentary CRIP CAMP, executive produced by Michelle and Barack Obama.

A screenwriter, memoirist, and advocate for disability and neurodiversity, Jones is fluent in five languages and writes frequently about identity, resilience, and the art of reinvention. She resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is currently at work on her next novel, Ellery Allbright Goes Dark, the story of a talk show host who loses her perfect life live on camera-only to discover a far more meaningful one off-screen.