About me
Jennifer De Leon is the award-winning author of the YA novels Borderless, featured on the TODAY show, and Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From. She is also the author of White Space: Essays on Culture, Race, & Writing, which won the Juniper Prize from the University of Massachusetts Press, and the editor of Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education, an International Latino Book Award-winning anthology. As an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Framingham State University and faculty member for the Newport MFA Program at Salve Regina University, she has published prose in over a dozen literary journals including Ploughshares, Iowa Review, and Michigan Quarterly Review. Jenn is the founder of Story Bridge, a program which aims to bring people together from all walks of life to shape, share, and hear each other’s unique stories. She lives outside of Boston with her husband and two sons. Connect with her online @jdeleonwriter or www.jenniferdeleonauthor.com.