Jennifer Edelson

Jennifer graduated from the University of Minnesota with a B.F.A. in fine arts and a J.D. from the Mitchell Hamline School of Law. After graduating at the top of her law school class, Jennifer clerked for the Honorable Judge Lawrence Agerter in Minnesota’s 14th district. Following a two-year stint writing court opinions and mediating small claims court disputes, she moved on to teach legal research and writing at the University of Minnesota Law School and into employment and privacy law practice for a boutique law firm in Minneapolis. Jennifer quit practicing law to pursue art and writing full time after a battle with MS and has since authored several award-winning young adult novels and short stories. She lives in New Mexico and, when she’s not writing, enjoys exploring all the culture, food, history, geology, art, and hiking the state has to offer. Indulge her interests in Albert Camus, rockhounding, or UFOs, and she’ll be your lifelong best friend.