Hi, I’m Jennifer. Sometimes I write things.

My first novel, Four Weeks, Five People, is about mental illness and the friendships that guide us through the uncertain arc of recovery. My second novel, Imagine Us Happy, is a love story about a boy, a girl, and Albert Camus.

When not writing, you can find me weeping intermittently about any number of the following topics:

• etymology (currently, of the word “disaster”)

• geology (currently, as explored in Marcia Bjornerud’s Timefulness.)

• mythology (currently, as preserved by Louise Gluck in the tender, wistful, title poem from The Triumph of Achilles)

• space (currently, as described by Carl Sagan in his reflections on the Voyager I “Pale Blue Dot” photograph)

• nature (currently, as experienced along Colorado’s Four Pass Loop, a Type II fun backpacking trip from which my hip flexors may never recover)

• music (currently, throwing it back to the Lumineers’ 2016 album Cleopatra)

• basketball (always, the Boston Celtics)

You can read more about my writing in NBC News, Seventeen Magazine, and Psychology Today. I’m represented by Elana Roth Parker at the Laura Dail Literary Agency, who is awesome.