Jennifer D. Munro

Jennifer D. Munro's refreshing, new literary voice is like Nora Ephron meets Anaïs Nin in a library. Her stories and essays have been published in over sixty literary journals and anthologies, including Salon.com; Best American Erotica; Brain, Child; the best of Literary Mama anthology; and The Bigger The Better The Tighter The Sweater: 21 Funny Women on Beauty and Body Image. Whether fiction or nonfiction, she often offers a candid, humorous, quirky exploration of sex and the sexes. Her short "humerotic" fiction is collected in THE EROTICA WRITER'S HUSBAND & OTHER STORIES. Her dark, fantastical fiction is collected in THE STRANGLER FIG.

J.D. blogs about unconventional motherhood and longterm marriage to an unconventional man at www.StraightNoChaserMom.com. She is a freelance editor who has taught for the Hugo House Literary Arts Center, King County Library, Edmonds Writers' Conference, Hedgebrook, and Pacific Northwest Writers Association, leading classes on writing memoir, erotica, humor, and women's essays. J.D.'s writing projects have been supported by various Washington and Oregon State arts commissions and fellowships.

J.D. grew up in Hawaii as a fourth-generation islander but now lives in the Pacific Northwest. Although J.D.'s grandfather slept through the bombing of Pearl Harbor not far from his bedroom window, she's an insomniac who writes when she can't sleep. From their Honolulu rooftop, her newlywed parents watched a nuclear bomb test. The microscopic egg that became J.D. bathing in this toxic glow might account for her unique perception of the world.

Learn more about the author and her work at www.munrojd.com.