Jennifer Black is an American author of

paranormal romance novels Paranormal events are purported phenomena described in popular culture, folk, and other non-scientific bodies of knowledge, whose existence within these contexts is described as being beyond the scope of normal scientific understanding. Nota ...

urban fantasy Urban fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy which places imaginary and unreal elements in an approximation of a contemporary urban setting. The combination provides the writer with quixotic plot-drivers, unusual character traits, and a platform for cl ...

, and

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fantasy novels. She began writing under the

pen name A pen name, also called a ''nom de plume'' or a literary double, is a pseudonym (or, in some cases, a variant form of a real name) adopted by an author and printed on the title page or by-line of their works in place of their real name. A pen na ...

Jenna Black in 2006. She published one novel earlier under her other name, Jennifer Barlow, and at least two short stories before that under her birth name. Jenna Glass is yet another pen name.

Biography

Jenna Black was raised in Bratt, Florida. She got her BA in physical anthropology and French from

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...

and has remained in the

Research Triangle The Research Triangle, or simply The Triangle, are both common nicknames for a metropolitan area in the Piedmont region of North Carolina in the United States, anchored by the cities of Raleigh and Durham and the town of Chapel Hill, home to ...

area in the years since. She once aspired to be a primatologist, but ended up writing technical documentation. She attended the

Clarion West Writers Workshop Clarion West Writers Workshop is an intensive six-week program for writers preparing for professional careers in science fiction and fantasy. It runs annually from late June through the end of July. The workshop is limited to 18 students per year. ...

in 1989. Her first mass market paperback, ''Watchers in the Night'' (Tor Paranormal Romance), came out in 2006. Black is represented by the Irene Goodman Literary Agency and is a member of the online writing blog, Deadline Dames.

Bibliography

As Jennifer Barlow

* ''Hamlet Dreams'' (2001)

As Jenna Black

Free reads

* ''Embraced in Darkness'' (2005–06) (can be downloaded for free fro
her website
) * ''The Matchmaker’s Curse'' (can be downloaded for free if you become a member of her Free Reads Yahoo group) *''Remedial Magic'' (can be downloaded for free fro

Replica

# ''Replica'' (2013) # ''Resistance'' (2014) # ''Revolution'' (2014)

Guardians of the Night

# ''Watchers in the Night'' (2006) # ''Secrets in the Shadows'' (2007) # ''Shadows on the Soul'' (2007) # ''Hungers of the Heart'' (2008)

Morgan Kingsley

Faeriewalker

Nikki Glass

Nightstruck

# ''Nightstruck'' (2016) #''Night Magic'' (2017)

Gifted

# ''The Gifted Dead'' (2014) # ''Schism'' (2015)

As Jenna Glass

The Women's War

Anthologies and collections

References

External links

Jenna Black Official Website
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