Ivy L. James

Ivy L. James writes queer romance and poetry with an emphasis on friendship, identity, and unconventional routes into partnership. Border CTRL + ESC, published by NineStar Press in 2021, opens the Virginia Is for All Lovers sequence. The novel follows online friends Mariana and Santiago as a job opportunity, immigration rules, and a proposed marriage of convenience move their relationship from digital conversation to a shared household. Its computer-key title reflects both their online connection and the wish to escape bureaucratic limits. James presents the pair as a demisexual woman and a bisexual man, allowing trust and communication to develop before either character can treat the arrangement as more than practical. Her other work includes the romance Love, Lorena and poetry collections The Orange and Pink Sunset and A Necklace of Teeth. Border CTRL + ESC establishes her interest in genre stories where labels clarify experience without replacing personality. The Virginia setting and cross-border premise also give the relationship concrete legal, professional, and cultural pressures beyond the central courtship itself.