I am also the current SCBWI Sonoma County Coordinator and a volunteer on the Sonoma County Library Advisory Board. The Healdsburg Literary Guild selected me as their 2019/2020 Literary Laureate for my work in building literacy in my community. When I’m not writing, you’ll find me galloping my little black mare through the foothills of Sonoma County or teaching free creative writing workshops to kids and adults at various branches of our local library system. Before this, I self-published a middle grade fantasy called THE PET WASHER. I’m the author of LIES LIKE WILDFIRE, a teen thriller soon-to-be published by Delacorte Press, and two middle grade book series, each published by HarperCollins Children’s Books, THE GUARDIAN HERD (a quartet) and RIDERS OF THE REALM (a trilogy). After earning her BA in English Literature from the University of California, Berkeley, Jennifer went into finance, of all things. I’m fascinated by underdogs and power dynamics between groups of people. Jennifer Lynn Alvarez is the author of ten published novels, including the YA thriller Lies Like Wildfire and two middle-grade fantasy series, but this is not where she started. in English from the University of California at Berkeley.
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