J.R. Blackwell is a writer and photographer. Her essay "Evidence of a Baker" was published in the Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster in March 2006. Her stories have been published by Escape Pod Magazine, Aoife's Kiss, Kaleidotrope, Bewildering Stories, Static Movement Magazine, EMG Magazine, HeavyGlow Magazine and in the first Podiobook anthology "Voices: New Media Fiction". She is one of the founding members of 365tomorrows.com which produces a new piece of science fiction daily.

J.R. has produced the covers to the Anthology "Voices: New Media Fiction" and the novels "Playing for Keeps", "The Case of the Singing Sword" and "The Case of the Pitchers Pendant". Her photography has been featured in SubLit Magazine and Flames Rising Magazine. J.R. is the Creative Director at Galileo Games and holds a Masters of Liberal Arts from the University of Pennsylvania. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband, artist Jared Axelrod.