About

Reader. Librarian. PWS. Dreamer.

Jade T. Woodridge was born in Naples, Italy to military parents and lived between Sardinia, Sicily, and Washington D.C for the first 8 years of her life. In addition to volcanic ash from the 1999 Mt. Etna eruption that rained down on her childhood home, Jade holds on to many pleasant memories. Her life over seas has greatly impacted how she views people and the world (and her taste in music!).


A lifelong story teller and an owner of five different library cards as a child, it was no surprise that Jade would pursue a Bachelor's in English Literature (Seton Hill University, 2016) and a Master's in Library and Information Sciences shortly after (University of Maryland, 2020). She has been working as a public librarian in the state of Michigan since 2018. Through her career so far, Jade has gotten to meet and host the likes of Angeline Boulley, Sarah Gailey, Etaf Rum, Bernice L. McFadden, James Patterson, Rebecca Kuang, and more.


While Jade reads and listens to a number of different genres and topics, she tends to write in the speculative realm of low Science Fiction/Fantasy. Romance and Drama follow close behind!


*Jade is part of the 1% of the adult population that stutters, and is a National Stuttering Association chapter leader. For more information about stuttering and people who stutter (PWS), please visit www.westutter.org

Publications

Short Stories

  • “How We Survive.” (FIYAH: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, USA. April
    2025. Digital)



  • “Flowers” (Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora; Issue 49.1. USA.
    2024. Print)     (ORDER)




  • "The Gate" (The Great Lakes Review. September 28, 2023. Digital)




  • “Pigeons.” (The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. USA. 2020. Digital)


  • “Millennium.” (Midnight & Indigo, Issue 4. USA. 2020. Print.)


  • “The Knife.” (Vine Leaves Journal. Issue #15. AU: Vine Leaves Press. 2016. Print.)

  • “The Meadow.” (Witchworks Magazine. Issue #5. USA. 2016. Digital and Print)


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New Adult

Tia Gray has a plan:

🗹 Make good grades,

🗹 Attend Mom and Dad's alma mater,

🗹 Major in a STEM field just like Mom and Dad,

☐ Meet and fall in love with a successful, powerhouse,

black University elite— just like Mom and Dad.


At least, that's the plan everyone expects, and what outlined ad nauseam in the volumes of notebooks that line her room. But Tia doesn't know what she wants or who she is. All she knows is that falling in love with her screwed up best friend, William— more artist than scientist, dreamer than realist, white rather than black— is NOT part of it. Having his baby, putting college on hiatus, and building a future with him in the country are DEFINITELY not part of the plan, either!


Tia Gray has a plan:

🗹 Make good grades,

🗹 Attend Mom and Dad's alma mater,

🗹 Major in a STEM field just like Mom and Dad,

☐ Meet and fall in love with a successful, powerhouse,

black University elite— just like Mom and Dad.


At least, that's the plan everyone expects, and what outlined ad nauseam in the volumes of notebooks that line her room. But Tia doesn't know what she wants or who she is. All she knows is that falling in love with her screwed up best friend, William— more artist than scientist, dreamer than realist, white rather than black— is NOT part of it. Having his baby, putting college on hiatus, and building a future with him in the country are DEFINITELY not part of the plan, either!


...But they could be.

...But they could be.

uh...

uh...

Now Querying

*Mock cover designed by me.

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Children

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135k

Adult SFF

Under Revision

On the desert planet of Diadasos, a young nomad of
a dying clan accepts her fate as a sacrifice to the
Goddess of Death. But when she is taken in by
strangers of a secluded mountain village and made
their priestess, a different kind of sacrifice must be
made...


Vengeful spirits

Absent Gods

Angsty love interest

Hidden agendas

Duty vs Freedom

Fighting fate

Work in

Progress

Octavia Butler’s Patternist meets Sharon Shinn’s Samaria

Octavia Butler’s Patternist meets Sharon Shinn’s Samaria

“Fear is a great and terrible thing... It can turn a desperate man
into a savior, just as it can turn him into a villain...”

Word Count Goal:

-120k

Query

Revisions Round 2

Editor

Revisions

4/03/25

  • Started forming a query list (will actively add to
    it)
  • Looking in to possible editors for the next phase


As of 3/19/25

  • Revised 68% of manuscript (includes
    rearranging, adding, and/or cutting chapters)
  • Word count reduced to 125k so far