Raised on the blue-collar streets of Rochester, New York, Jennifer spent her teens sneaking dog-eared library books into night shifts at a corner diner—scribbling story ideas on order pads between pouring coffees. She later earned a psychology degree that sharpened her fascination with why people break the rules and how they patch the fallout. Those threads weave through her writing routine today: dawn scribbles at a second-hand desk, lunchtime interviews with teens at local after-school programs, and dusk editing sessions scored by ’90s alt-rock playlists. Away from the keyboard, Jennifer mentors young writers, volunteers with a girls empowerment nonprofit, and road trips to small-town bookshops in a battered hatchback plastered with literary quotes. Every mile, every conversation, and every half-remembered lyric feeds her mission to craft fiction that hands a flashlight to readers still stumbling through their own dark corridors.