Jennifer de Guzman

Jennifer de Guzman writes about smart girls, sad songs, and silly boys.

She’s been a tech industry worker bee, a library clerk, a speculative fiction journal editor, an exhausted grad student, editor-in-chief at an indie comics company, director of PR and marketing at a larger indie comics company, a freelance pop culture writer, and a graphic novel reviewer — but all the while she’s been writing stories.

Jennifer graduated from San José State University’s creative writing program with a Master of Fine Arts degree and was the recipient of the Marjorie McLaughlin Folendorf Award, several Phelan Awards, and the AWP Intro Journals Award.

She has lived all her life in the San Francisco Bay Area and currently shares her space with her husband Brian Belew, son Mateo, daughter Mina, cats Jenny Flint and Philippa Purrip (Pippa), cocker spaniel Renfield, and her mini-murder of backyard crows.

She loves to look out windows and listen to The Smiths, and has a deep, abiding fascination for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Cleopatra VII. Her favorite novel is One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. Jennifer shares a birthday with three of her favorite people—Voltaire, René Magritte, and Björk—and she thinks that says a lot about all four of them.