June Gervais’s debut novel Jobs for Girls with Artistic Flair (Viking/Penguin) is the coming-of-age story of a young queer woman chasing her dream of becoming a tattoo artist in the of the 1980s, when the industry was a gritty, predominantly male subculture. Called “original, immersive, and wholly alive” (Kirkus Reviews), it has been praised in The New York Times, Newsday, Ploughshares, Booklist, Washington Independent Review of Books, Shondaland’s Pride Month Reading List, Lambda Literary’s “Most Anticipated LGBTQIA+ Literature,” and more. 

June’s essays, poems, and stories have appeared in Lit Hub, Writer’s Digest, The North American Review, The Missouri Review, Gulf Coast, Big Fiction, Cream City Review, Them, The Pinch, RHINO, The Common, Past Ten, Cordella, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars and teaches creative writing at Hofstra University, as well as conferences and community bookstores. Find her at junegervais.com and on Instagram (@june.gervais.writer).