About the Author

Jenna Glatzer is an award-winning full-time writer who's written 19 books and hundreds of articles for magazines and online publications such as Physical, Prevention, Woman’s World, Woman’s Own, USAA, Women's Health & Fitness, Salon.com, ePregnancy, Contemporary Bride, Match.com, MSN, and AOL.  

She's a contributing editor at Writer's Digest and a columnist at Punnybop.

Her main writing interests are biographies and memoirs, and she often writes about health and parenting. She also loves writing for children, as well as writing humor essays and personal essays.

She's written three books for writers: Outwitting Writer’s Block and Other Problems of the Pen (The Lyons Press, 2003), Make a Real Living as a Freelance Writer (Nomad Press, 2004), and The Street-Smart Writer (Nomad Press, 2006).

She's also worked on two books for people with anxiety disorders: Fear Is No Longer My Reality (McGraw-Hill, 2005) is a book she co-wrote with Jamie Blyth of The Bachelorette, telling his tale about overcoming panic disorder and social anxiety disorder. Conquering Panic and Anxiety Disorders (Hunter House, 2002) is an anthology of success stories from people who've overcome all sorts of anxiety disorders.

Her latest children's picture book is Hattie, Get a Haircut! (Moo Press, 2005), a whimsical rhyming story about a girl who refuses to get her hair cut.

She also worked with Celine Dion on the authorized biography Celine Dion: For Keeps (Andrews McMeel, 2005), which was one of Jenna's favorite life experiences.

(Jenna's not particularly short; Celine is tall!)

She co-authored the books Fertility Foods (Simon & Schuster, 2006) with Jeremy Groll, M.D. and Lorie Groll, and Bullyproof Your Child's Life (Penguin, 2007) with Joel Haber, Ph.D. 

Unbroken (Thomas Nelson, 2007) is a Christian memoir about overcoming abuse and addiction, written with Tracy Elliott.

Then came The Marilyn Monroe Treasures (Barnes & Noble, 2008), in the same format as the Celine Dion book-- oversized hardcover filled with removable memorabilia. It's a strong seller at Barnes & Noble.

Her most recently released book is Unthinkable, written with Scott Rigsby, the first double-amputee to finish the world-famous Hawaiian Ironman triathlon (Tyndale House, 2009; visit www.scottrigsby.com). 

After that comes Susan Markowitz's book. Her son Nick Markowitz was murdered in 2000 at the orders of drug dealer Jesse James Hollywood. This story was the basis of the movie Alpha Dog. It will be released by Berkley in 2010. Visit www.nicholasmarkowitz.com for updates on that project.

Because Jenna is a ghostwriter, not all of her work carries her byline, and she can't always talk about what she's worked on. So if you read a book you really like, you can always pretend she wrote it. She'll like that. If it's a bad book, no way did she write it. Ptooey, and other disdainful noises.

Jenna has also written hundreds of greeting cards and copy for mugs, bumper stickers, doormats, aprons, t-shirts, buttons, magnets, and plaques for companies such as Gallant Greetings, Paradise Greetings, Ephemera, High Cotton, and Northern Cards.

An experienced speaker, Jenna is a frequent media guest. She was the honorary chairperson of the national 2004 I Love to Write Day and a writing workshop instructor for the Omega Institute. She also serves as a judge of the Writer's Digest Self-Published Book Awards.

Her proudest accomplishment so far is overcoming agoraphobia. 

She is still mourning the loss of Angel, the brilliant Joss Whedon TV series that spun off from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.  She is convinced that when she gets rich enough, she's going to single-handedly resurrect the series, even if that doesn't happen until all of the principal actors are in their 80s.

Her home is in New York with her her fabulous little girl (Sarina), and her kitty (Kira). 

Who's profiled or interviewed Jenna?

Parade Magazine, NBC News, Woman's World, Writer's Market, Lifetime Television, Newsday, and many more.

Miscellaneous facts about Jenna, for her truly devoted fans:

• Boston University alumna

• Comfort foods: Snapea Crisps (original flavor), brownies, Popems

• Cat: Kira, calico

• Favorite authors: Maya Angelou, T.C. Boyle

• Favorite TV shows: American Idol, Lost, Veronica Mars, House, Scrubs, Bear in the Big Blue House (quit looking at me like that)

• Drug of choice: Motrin

• Favorite human being: her brother, Paul

• Favorite song: "Round Here" by Counting Crows, live 10-minute version

• Career before writing: Stage actress

• Can't navigate her way out of her own driveway without her Garmin

• Born on Thanksgiving

• Oddly wedge-shaped feet, size 6 1/2

• Favorite musicals: Godspell, Hair, Starmites, Les Mis, Rent, Miss Saigon, Aida, Chess, Closer Than Ever... okay, she'll stop now. 

• She's a sucker for the book cart at the library, where she loads up on hardcover books for 50 cents and paperbacks for a quarter. A quarter! 

• Thankful for: old friends, fast metabolism, close family, kind readers