Jess Morgan is a singer-songwriter based in Norwich. Clash magazine described her music as ‘the kind of thing you put on your headphones when walking alone and wanting to feel part of your own gritty, British love story.’ In 2019 she secured funding from Arts Council England to develop a new hybrid kind of performance, bringing together music and storytelling, and which toured in UK venues from London to Orkney. Together with the arts organisation ‘Inn Crowd’ she will develop the show further into a Live Literature performance to be toured rurally in the UK. She completed an MA in Creative Non-Fiction at the University of East Anglia in 2018. She has been shortlisted for the I'll Show You Mine Prize for Sex Writing and longlisted for the Hinterland Prize for non-fiction. Her writing has also been published by The Cardiff Review – Queer Edition (Choking on a Hotdog at a Baseball Game), in Memoir Mixtapes (On Thorn In My Side by Eurythmics) , and Oh Comely magazine (Eight, Eight, Eight). She was also recently commissioned to write a short narrative programme for BBC Radio Norfolk (Marina Centre I Love You Forever). Ordinary Birds is her first book.