Jemiah Jefferson is an African-American writer. Her first printed work was St*rf*ck*ng, a collection of short erotic stories published by Future Tense Books. Her first full length novel was written in 24 hours in 1990. This eventually became Voice of the Blood, later published by Leisure Books in 2001 and then as an e-book in 2011. This was also Jefferson's first published work detailing the adventures of the vampire

Vampire

Vampires are mythological or folkloric beings who subsist by feeding on the life essence of living creatures, regardless of whether they are undead or a living person...

 Daniel Blum.

More recently, Jefferson has written a series of novels . The second novel in this series, Wounds, was released in May of 2002. The third novel, Fiend, was released in April 2005, and in 2007 Jefferson published A Drop of Scarlet. In 2010, Underland Press

Underland Press

Underland Press is a publishing company owned by Victoria Blake. Victoria Blake is a writer and the former prose editor for Dark Horse Comics....

 also published Jefferson's novel

Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

 FirstWorld.

Jefferson has also written for Willamette Week

Willamette Week

Willamette Week is an alternative weekly newspaper published in Portland, Oregon, United States. It features reports on local news, politics, sports, business and culture....

, a free weekly paper in Portland, the GLBT publication Just Out

Just Out

Just Out is a bi-monthly LGBTQ newspaper published in Portland, Oregon, United States, founded in 1983 by Jay Brown and Renee LaChance. Former contributors to Just Out include novelist Marc Acito, Pink Martini pianist Thomas Lauderdale, and prize-winning reporter Peter Zuckerman.The newspaper's web...

, as well as Plazm

Plazm (magazine)

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, 2Gyrlz Quarterly

2 Gyrlz Performative Arts

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, and Cafe 80s Magazine.

Jefferson works in the editorial department at Dark Horse Comics

Dark Horse Comics

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 and is a regular contributor to Popshifter.com.

Jemiah Jefferson lives in Portland, Oregon

Portland, Oregon

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. She graduated from Reed College

Reed College

Reed College is a private, independent, liberal arts college located in southeast Portland, Oregon. Founded in 1908, Reed is a residential college with a campus located in Portland's Eastmoreland neighborhood, featuring architecture based on the Tudor-Gothic style, and a forested canyon wilderness...

in 1994.