Jen Finelli, MD, is a world-traveling scifi author and adventure medicine physician who's ridden a motorcycle in a monsoon, swum with sharks, crawled under barbed wire in the mud, and hiked everywhere from hidden coral deserts and island mountains to steaming underground urban tunnels littered with poetry. She was once locked inside a German nunnery, and recently had to find her way through swamp-filled Korean foothills dotted with graveyards on Friday the 13th under a full moon without a flashlight. On her quest to rescue stories often swallowed by the shadows, she's delivered babies, cradled the dying, and interviewed everyone from prostitutes to Senators. If you want cancer-fighting zombie fiction, dinosaur picture books, scientists jumping into volcanoes, or talking cars and peyote legislation, you might like Jen.

Jen's also a practicing MD, FAWM candidate, and sexual assault medical forensic examiner with hundreds of pelvic exams and thousands of patient encounters under her belt. Her own experience with chronic pain and mental illness, both as a patient and a physician in the military, have shaped her ability to find hope in suffering.

When she grows up, she wants to be a superhero.