Writer. Editor. Story-lover.
Tess Canfield is a writer whose fiction and essays have been featured in Five Points, Santa Monica Review, Barnstorm Journal, Charge Magazine, Citric Acid, WePresent, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Chapman University, where she was an English Graduate Fellow, and a BA from Emerson College. Her writing has been supported by the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Community of Writers, and others. Her screenwriting has been recognized by Almanack Screenwriters as a semi-finalist for their October Colony.
Currently, Tess is the co-founder and managing director of 50 Free Books, a literary non-profit that distributes free books by historically marginalized writers every month. She’s also an Essay Coach at a top boutique agency helping students gain admission to the world’s most elite colleges and universities. She lives in Los Angeles, where she’s working on a feature-length screenplay alongside her debut novel.
Follow her on Instagram, or send her a message. Besides books, her favorite topics of conversation are visual art, 80s & 90s pop music, animals, and carbs.
