Jean Rover

About the Author

Jean Rover is a novelist, short story, and personal essay writer. She is the author of, And Then Spring Comes, a story collection about life’s ups and downs, Touch the Sky, a heart-rending novel, filled with intrigue, about a missing child in Oregon’s backcountry and its sequel, Ready or Not. Her writing has received awards or recognition from Writer’s Digest, Short Story America, Willamette Writers, Oregon Writers Colony, This I Believe, Inc., and the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC). Her work has appeared in various literary magazines and anthologies, including the Saturday Evening Post’s Great American Fiction Contest anthology. Other stories were performed at Liars’ League events in London, England and Portland, Oregon. She has also authored a chapbook, Beneath the Boughs Unseen, featuring holiday stories about society’s invisible people. She lives and writes in Oregon’s lush Willamette Valley.

Of Touch the Sky, a Booklife Prize reviewer said: "Rover writes with a clear sense of place. Her prose is sharp and succinct, capturing the idiosyncratic life of the citizens of a small, rural town. She manages to suffuse a standard missing child plot with enough twists and turns to keep even the most seasoned reader entertained.”

Ready or Not was a semi-finalist in Chanticleer’s Mystery and Mayhem International Book Awards contest.