Jenna Blum - Women's Philanthropy WORDS Book Clubs author

Jenna Blum is The New York Times and No. 1 international bestselling author of novels Those Who Save Us (Harcourt 2004) and The Stormchasers (Dutton 2010); novella The Lucky One in the postwar anthology Grand Central (Penguin 2014); and audio course The Author at Work: The Art of Writing Fiction (Recorded Books 2014). She is one of Oprah’s Top 30 Women Writers.

Jenna earned a Bachelor of Arts at Kenyon College and a Master of Arts in Creative Writing at Boston University where she taught Creative and Communications Writing for five years, and was editor of AGNI Literary Magazine. Jenna has taught fiction and novel workshops for Boston’s Grub Street Writers for over 20 years. She interviewed Holocaust survivors for Steven Spielberg’s Survivors of the Shoah Foundation, and works currently with Facing History and Ourselves. Jenna is a national and international public speaker. She is based in Boston where she is working on her fourth novel.