Jennifer Wilson

Jennifer Wilson was born in Colfax, Iowa. She's been a rock writer, investigative reporter, high school English teacher, Big Band radio DJ, storyteller for The Moth, and both a local newspaper and national magazine editor. Her work has appeared in Esquire, National Geographic Traveler, Gourmet, NPR's All Things Considered, Better Homes & Gardens, No Depression, Travel with Rick Steves, and many other places. Her first book, Running Away to Home, received Best Nonfiction Book of 2012 from the American Society of Journalists and Authors. She published WATER, the sexiest environmental novel on the west side of the Mississippi, with Raygun, in 2016. www.jennifer-wilson.com.