About Jennifer
Jennifer S. Brown’s debut novel, Modern Girls, was a USA Today bestseller, a Massachusetts Book Award “Must Read,” and a 2016 Goodreads Choice semifinalist for Historical Fiction. Her writing has been published in Fiction Southeast, McSweeney’s, The Best Women’s Travel Writing, The Southeast Review, and the Bellevue Literary Review, among other places. She teaches writing, both in-person in the Boston area as well as online through the Loft Literary Center. The Whisper Sister is her second novel.
With a BFA in film and television from New York University and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Washington, Seattle, she is uniquely suited to write movie reviews, which would be great if she hadn’t stopped going to the movies when her kids were born. Now that they’re (mostly) grown, she’s catching up on the last twenty years of film. Jennifer grew up in Miami Beach, Florida, which makes people question, every winter, what she’s doing in New England. However, she finds northern winters fabulous for her two favorite activities: writing and drinking bourbon in front of a fire.
Jennifer, who lives outside of Boston, has two mostly grown children, who occasionally grace her with a visit, the goodest doggie ever, and a husband who pretends not to hear her when she says she wants to adopt more dogs
Short Bio
Jennifer S. Brown’s debut novel, Modern Girls, was a USA Today bestseller, a Massachusetts Book Award “Must Read,” and a 2016 Goodreads Choice semifinalist for Historical Fiction. Her writing has been published in Fiction Southeast, McSweeney’s, The Best Women’s Travel Writing, The Southeast Review, and the Bellevue Literary Review, among other places. She teaches writing, both in-person in the Boston area and online through the Loft Literary Center. She holds a BFA in film and television from NYU and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Washington. The Whisper Sister is her second novel.
