Jess Gulbranson

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"I don’t know that I’d go with either “uber” or “extraordinaire”- maybe “hack”. The fancy-pants word I use to describe my lack of depth in any particular field is “bricoleur”. Which I suppose, in a certain sense, is very apt. Everything comes together for me in one way or another- music informed STOMPING in the creation of it, chapter by chapter, and then when I was done I recorded a soundtrack for the preorder supporters. It’s the same way with everything else I do. I’ve done concept albums- my friend and I are working on turning it into a board game- and machinima scoring and backing tracks for my poetry. I don’t there’s any reason not to do all these different things. If you can write a novel that’s saturated in song, or compose a poem in sfumato- then shit, you’ve won. And I don’t describe all these things to brag. I’m very fortunate and humbled by the opportunity to even try- and I’m trying to repay that all the time."

—from an interview with Gulbranson.

Jess Gulbranson is an American author, musician, and visual artist. Describes himself as a "Renaissance Jerk", and has dabbled as well in poetry and acting. Performs critical duties at Crappy Indie Music: The Blog, where he has interviewed such cool people as Meshell Ndegeocello, Mike Kirkland, David J, Tony Levin, and visual artist Marshall Arisman.

One of us.

Works written by Jess Gulbranson include:

• MEL- Slipstream novel, originally serialized in NW Drizzle.
• Antipaladin Blues- Cursed tropetastic dungeonpunk novel.
• 10 A BOOT STOMPING 20 A HUMAN FACE 30 GOTO 10- Scifi thriller about music, ghosts, and autism, written for the 3Day Novel competition.