Jesse is an author, graduate of the Minnesota School of Business, and avid reader. His short stories were chosen for publication in the annual Globe College of Business collection, The Creative Quill vol. 7 (2011), vol. 8 (2012) and vol. 9 (2013). Some of his short fiction was (Aug. 2011) chosen for publication in The Independent Voice campus magazine where he also earned an Editor credit for his work on a fellow student's true-life account of his experience during the troop surge in Iraq, as well as the ReVerb's literary magazine, Good Opus (2012). Jesse's stories run a genre gamut including: Horror, Western, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Post-Apocalyptic. His other interests include chess, riddling, philosophy, religion, history, film, gaming, fishing, nature, music and butterscotch.