Writer.
Storyteller.
Over 20 years reading what the body reveals. Now I put it into words: dark fiction, poetry, and essays that refuse to resolve.
"The demand that writing be comfortable is a demand that it be useless."
20+
Years Writing
4
Genres
60+
Published Pieces
1
Author Site
Two Voices, One Writer
By day,
strategic.
By night, dark.
My commercial work, the ghostwriting, the healthcare content, the legal copy, taught me discipline. Deadlines, structure, the architecture of persuasion. But creative writing is where I unlearn all of that. Where I follow the image instead of the outline, and let the sentences go somewhere uncomfortable.
The creative work lives at jessicaneutzauthor.com. Dark fiction, horror, poetry, and essays that explore the spaces where beauty meets unease.
Read the full story"The discipline of commercial writing gives me the freedom to take risks in my creative work."
Jessica Neutz
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Horror is not about what happens. It is about what you realize, too late, was always there.
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Jessica Neutz
Writer. Strategist. Both.
Jessica Neutz
Commercial strategist by trade. Dark fiction writer by compulsion.
For over 20 years, Jessica has worked at the intersection of language and precision — first as a healthcare professional who learned to read what the body reveals, then as a writer who learned to put it into words. Today she runs a content strategy practice serving healthcare providers, law firms, and C-suite executives who need writing that builds authority and earns trust.
The creative work is the other half of the same obsession. Dark fiction, gothic poetry, lyric essays — writing that refuses to resolve, that follows the image instead of the outline, that lets sentences go somewhere uncomfortable. The discipline of the commercial work gives her the freedom to take risks here. She knows the rules well enough to break them on purpose.
"The commercial work pays the bills. The creative work keeps me honest. Both require the same thing: you have to actually mean it."
Her prose doesn't describe dread — it is dread. I read ‘The Hollow Women’ at noon on a Tuesday and still couldn’t shake it by midnight. That’s the mark of something real.
M. Calloway
Literary Horror Reader & Blogger
I’ve read a lot of literary horror. Most of it mistakes bleakness for depth. Jessica’s work is different — there’s a precision to the darkness, like she knows exactly which nerve to press and when. ‘SLIT LAMP’ is the most formally daring piece I’ve encountered in years.
R. Osei
MFA Fiction, Workshop Instructor
What strikes me most is the discipline underneath the wildness. You can feel that this writer knows structure cold — and then chooses, deliberately, to break it. ‘Taxonomy of Small Griefs’ wrecked me in four minutes flat.
T. Hargrove
Poet & Small Press Editor
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Read the work yourselfThe Cartwright
Inheritance
A debut novel. A house that has been waiting. A woman who inherits it and begins to understand, too slowly, that the house has been waiting specifically for her. Gothic horror at novel length — the long form the short stories have been building toward.
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Catalog of the Unnamed
PoetryA full-length poetry collection built around the things language refuses to name. Grief without a word for it. Love that doesn't fit a category. The body doing things the mind won't admit.
What the Body Keeps
EssaysA lyric essay collection at the intersection of clinical observation and personal reckoning. Twenty years of reading bodies. What that does to a person. What it reveals.
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This page is an introduction. The complete archive, including full stories, poetry collections, essays, and the occasional newsletter, lives at the dedicated author site. Writing that lives in the wrong light.
Enter the ArchiveThe writer who does this also writes for healthcare, law, and executives.
Same writer. Same obsession with precision. Different purpose. By day, I ghostwrite for healthcare providers, law firms, and C-suite executives — content that builds authority, ranks in search, and drives real business results.
The creative work you just read is what happens when I take off the strategist hat. But the discipline behind both is identical: research first, clarity always, and never waste the reader's time.
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