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Jenna Blum

Biography

Jenna Blum

Jenna Blum is the New York Times and # 1 internationally bestselling author of the novels THOSE WHO SAVE US, THE STORMCHASERS, THE LOST FAMILY and MURDER YOUR DARLINGS; the memoir WOODROW ON THE BENCH; the audiocourse “The Author at Work: The Art of Writing Fiction”; and the WWII podcast “The Key of Love.”

As the CEO of the online author interview company A Mighty Blaze, which she cofounded during the COVID-19 pandemic, Jenna earned a reputation as a publishing industry community builder and innovator. As an on-air host, she has conducted hundreds of interviews for the Blaze, from literary legends to new voices.  

Jenna is one of Oprah.com readers’ Top 30 Women Writers. She earned her MA at Boston University in Creative Writing and has taught workshops for Boston University, Grub Street Writers, A Mighty Blaze and numerous other institutions for over 25 years. She interviewed Holocaust survivors for Steven Spielberg’s Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation and is a professional public speaker, traveling nationally and internationally to speak about her work. 

Jenna is based in downtown Boston, where she’s the proud human of her black Lab, Henry Higgins.

Jenna Blum

Books by Jenna Blum

by Jenna Blum - Fiction, Psychological Suspense, Psychological Thriller, Romance, Romantic Suspense, Suspense, Thriller

Simone “Sam” Vetiver is a mid-career novelist finishing a lukewarm publicity tour while facing a deadline for a new book on which she’s totally blocked. Recently divorced, Sam is worrying where her life is going when she receives glowing fan mail from stratospherically successful author William Corwyn, renowned for his female-centric novels. When William and Sam meet and his literary sympathy is as intense as their chemistry, both writers think they’ve found The One. But as in their own novels, things between Sam and William are not what they seem. William has multiple stalkers, including a scarily persistent one named The Rabbit. When writers turn up dead, including from The Darlings support group William runs, Sam has to ask: Is it The Rabbit --- William’s #1 Stalker? Another woman scorned? Can William be everything he seems?

by Jenna Blum - Memoir, Nonfiction

Since she adopted him as a puppy 15 years earlier, Jenna Blum and Woodrow have been inseparable. Known to many as “the George Clooney of dogs” for his good looks and charm, Woodrow and his “Mommoo” are fixtures in their Boston neighborhood. But Woodrow is aging. As he begins to fail, the true nature of his extraordinary relationship with Jenna is revealed. Jenna may be the dog parent, but it is Woodrow, with his amazing personality and trusting nature, who has much to teach her. A divorcée who has experienced her share of sadness and loss, Jenna discovers, over the months she spends caring for her ailing dog, what it is to be present in the moment, and what it truly means to love.

by Jenna Blum - Fiction, Historical Fiction

Peter Rashkin, the owner of Masha’s and its head chef, is a survivor of Auschwitz. Running the restaurant consumes him, as does his terrible guilt over surviving the horrors of the Nazi death camp while his wife, Masha, and two young daughters perished. Then June Bouquet, an up-and-coming young model, appears at the restaurant, piercing Peter’s guard. Though she is 20 years his junior, the two begin a passionate, whirlwind courtship. When June unexpectedly becomes pregnant, Peter proposes. But over the next 20 years, the indelible sadness of his horrific memories of the past will overshadow Peter, June and their daughter Elsbeth, transforming them in shocking, heartbreaking and unexpected ways.