Jen Hobbs is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University’s MFA program. In 2016, she co-authored "Jesse Ventura’s Marijuana Manifesto," which inspired the content for her next book, "American Hemp: How Growing Our Newest Cash Crop Can Improve Our Health, Clean Our Environment, and Slow Climate Change" (published April 2019). Her first cookbook "Cooking with CBD: 50 Delicious Cannabidiol-and Hemp-Infused Recipes for Whole Body Healing without the High" is a collection of recipes she developed while her family were growing medical marijuana in California. She now resides in O’Fallon, Missouri, with her husband, Andrew, and daughters, McKayla and Moira.