JENNA BLUM is the New York Times and # 1 international bestselling author of Those Who Save Us (Harcourt, 2004) and The Stormchasers (Dutton, 2010). Jenna is also one of Oprah's Top Thirty Women Writers.

Jenna's debut novel Those Who Save Us is a New York Times bestseller and the # 1 Book of 2011 in Holland. Those Who Save Us is also a Boston Globe bestseller and the 2005 Ribalow Prize winner, adjudged by Elie Wiesel. Those Who Save Us is a perennial book club favorite; to talk about Those Who Save Us, Jenna attended over 800 book clubs in the Boston area alone.

Jenna's critcally acclaimed and reader-beloved 2nd novel, The Stormchasers, which Jenna researched by chasing tornadoes for six years with stormchase company Tempest Tours, is also a Dutch bestseller, a Boston Globe bestseller, a Target Emerging Author Pick, and a BORDERS bestseller. 

Jenna attended Kenyon College and Boston University, where she earned an M.A. in Creative Writing, taught Creative and Communications Writing for 5 years and was the editor of AGNI Literary Magazine. For 15 years, Jenna has taught master novel workshops in Boston for Grub Street Writers; she now writes monthly Writer on The Road and Friday Five-0 columns for Grub Daily. Jenna currently lives with photographer Jim Reed and black Lab Woodrow in Wichita, Kansas, where she is writing the screenplay for Those Who Save Us and researching Book 3. Jenna also travels to speak about her novels and visits book clubs in person, by phone, or via Skype. Please follow Jenna on Facebook and Twitter to share her daily adventures.