Jenna Blum
JENNA BLUM is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of novels THOSE WHO SAVE US and THE STORM CHASERS and the novella “the lucky one” in the WW2-era anthology GRAND CENTRAL. Jenna is also one of Oprah’s Top 30 Women Writers. Jenna’s debut novel THOSE WHO SAVE US was a New York Times bestseller; a Boston Globe bestseller; the winner of the 2005 Ribalow Prize, adjudged by Elie Wiesel; a BORDERS book club pick, a perennial book club favorite, and the # 1 bestselling novel in Holland. Jenna’s second novel, THE STORMCHASERS, is a Boston Globe bestseller, a Target Emerging Authors pick, and a bestseller in Holland and France. Jenna’s newest work, her novella “the lucky one,” will appear in anthology GRAND CENTRAL, published by Penguin in July, 2014.
Jenna has been writing since she was four and professionally since she was sixteen, when her short story “The Legacy of Frank Finklestein” won Seventeen Magazine’s National Fiction Contest. Jenna is a graduate of Kenyon College (B.A., English) and Boston University (M.A., Creative Writing); she taught creative writing and journalism for Boston University for five years and has taught fiction for over fifteen years for Boston’s Grub Street Writers, where she currently teaches seminars and master novel workshops. Jenna was AGNI literary magazine’s fiction editor for five years and now contributes Writer On The Road columns for Grub Street Daily; dividing her time between Boston and the Midwest, Jenna just finished writing the screenplay for THOSE WHO SAVE US and is writing her third novel. Jenna loves to visit book clubs in person, by phone, and via Skype. Please contact her on Facebook, on Twitter (@jenna_blum) and on her website.
