[8] In Locus, Paula Guran said of The Girl and the House that Ness: "subverts and glorifies the clichés and tropes of every gothic novel ever written, in less than 1,800 words"[9] Ness has been a panelist and guest at a number of science fiction conventions, most notably Worldcon 2019 in Dublin.

[10] One reviewer of the Worldcon panel where she participated, "The golden age of animated SF," commented that the members of the panel "meandered and didn’t really answer the question it posed, digressing into questions such as ‘what is genre?’ and ‘what is animation?’ before getting to some light discussion of the eponymous topic in the last 15 minutes.

[21][22] Her novelette, "The Ceremony", published in Fireside Quarterly in 2018, was on Locus's recommended reading list in 2018.

Ness is a wheelchair user due to postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome and vertigo.

[25][26] On occasion her experience with these informs her characters and stories and so too does her interests in technology and mythology and how they can resolve or cause issues.