Jennifer Brown

Two-time winner of the Erma Bombeck Global Humor Award (2005 and 2006), Jennifer’s weekly humor column appeared in The Kansas City Star for over four years, until she gave it up to be a full-time young adult novelist. Jennifer’s debut novel, HATE LIST (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers) received three starred reviews and was selected as an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, a VOYA “Perfect Ten,” and a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year. HATE LIST also won the Michigan Library Association’s Thumbs UP! Award, and received spots on the Texas Library Associations’ Taysha’s high school reading list as well as the Missouri Library Association’s Missouri Gateway Awards list, and has been nominated for the Oklahoma Sequoyah Award. Jennifer’s second novel, BITTER END, received a starred review from Publishers Weekly, and was released the week of May 9, 2011. Jennifer writes and lives in the Kansas City area with her husband and three children. For more information on Jennifer, check out her web-site http://www.jenniferbrownya.com.