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author JL Lycette, a woman with brunette hair, holding a copy of her book The Committee Will Kill You Now

JL / Jennifer Lycette is a novelist, award-winning essayist, rural physician, wife, and mom. She has a degree in biochemistry from the University of San Francisco and attained her medical degree at the University of Washington.

book cover of THE ALGORITHM WILL SEE YOU NOW by JL Lycette. Blue background with white DNA helices and digital 1's and 0's and a partial image of a woman's face in shadow

Mid-career, she discovered narrative medicine in her path back from physician burnout and has been writing ever since.

The Algorithm Will See You Now is her first novel and was a 2023 Screencraft Cinematic Book Competition Finalist, a 2023 Maxy Awards Finalist (Thriller category). and a 2023 Page Turner Book Awards Finalist (Best Debut Novel category)

The Committee Will Kill You Now is her second novel and was released November 9, 2023!

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Her other published speculative fiction can be found in the anthology And If That Mockingbird Don’t Sing: Parenting Stories Gone Speculative (Alternating Current Press).

Learn more about her books here.

Her essays can be found in Intima, NEJM, JAMA and other journals; and online at Doximity and Medscape.

She is a member of ITW (International Thriller Writers), the Pacific Northwest Writers Association and an alumna of the 2019 Pitch Wars Mentoring program.

Member, ITW since 2023

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