JENNA BLUM is the author of the New York Times bestseller Those Who Save Us (Harcourt, 2004) and The Stormchasers (Dutton, 2010).  Jenna is also one of Oprah's Top Thirty Women Writers (view Oprah's Top Thirty).  Jenna attended Kenyon College and Boston University, where she taught writing for five years and was the fiction editor for AGNI literary magazine. Currently, Jenna divides her time between Boston, where she runs master novel workshops for Grub Street Writers, and Minnesota, where she writes in the town where her mother and grandmother weree born.  Jenna spends her non-writing time on the road talking to book clubs and at events about The Stormchasers and Those Who Save Us, which in addition to being a New York Times bestseller was a Boston Globebestseller, the winner of the 2005 Ribalow Prize, a Borders Book Club pick, and a favorite with book clubs across the country (Jenna has visited over 800 book clubs in the Boston area alone). Jenna is currently touring with the critically- and reader-acclaimed The Stormchasers, a novel she researched by chasing tornadoes for five years with the stormchase company Tempest Tours. For more information about Jenna, her novels, and her Stormchasers speaking circuit, please visit The Stormchasers and Eventslinks on this site.