Heather Rose Jones is the author of the Alpennia historic fantasy series (from Bella Books) and the fairy-tale novella The Language of Roses (from Queen of Swords Press). She has sold short fiction to Sword and Sorceress, Lace and Blade, and Podcastle, among others. She has non-fiction publications on topics ranging from biotech to historic costume to naming practices. Mother of Souls, one of the Alpennia novels, was awarded the Gaylactic Spectrum Best Novel for 2016.

Heather creates the Lesbian Historic Motif Project blog and its associated podcast, presenting research on gender and sexuality in history as a resource for authors writing historic-based fiction, as well as promoting lesbian historical fiction in general.

Heather has a PhD from U.C. Berkeley in Linguistics, specializing in the semantics of Medieval Welsh prepositions. She has retired from being a discrepancy investigator in biotech pharmaceuticals.