Jennifer Haskin is an author, editor, and lifelong student of storytelling. She writes across age categories, from imaginative picture books to young adult speculative fiction, with a particular love for unusual worlds, complicated characters, humor, mystery, and stories with heart.

Her path through publishing has taken her to nearly every side of the desk. Earlier in her career, Jennifer worked as a literary agent and later as an associate editor, experiences that gave her the opportunity to work with scores of authors and manuscripts. She has edited more than eighty books and has also worked independently with writers on craft, revision, querying, publishing, and marketing.

But before she was an agent or editor, Jennifer was a writer.

She began the way many writers do: by writing a book, discovering how much she didn’t know, and then writing another one. And another. Along the way she attended conferences, joined writing organizations, entered contests, experimented with traditional and independent publishing, learned book marketing the hard way, and kept writing.

Today, that is where her focus has returned.

Jennifer writes books for both young people and adults and continues to share what she has learned about writing and publishing through her blog. She believes good writers never really finish learning their craft—and that some of the best stories begin with a question nobody sensible would think to ask.

When she isn’t writing or editing, she’s usually reading, talking about books, chasing down a new story idea, or wondering why the manuscript she opened “just to fix one sentence” has somehow stolen the entire afternoon.