Jennifer De Leon

Jennifer De Leon is an American author of YA novels. She was born in the Boston area to immigrant parents from Guatemala. She graduated from Connecticut College with a degree in International Relations (spending two semesters abroad), and has also earned her MA in Teaching from the University of San Francisco, and an MFA in Creative Writing from UMASS-Boston. Jennifer’s stories and essays have bene published in over a dozen literary magazines and anthologies. She spent a decade teaching in public schools, and is now an Assistant Professor of English at Framingham State University. Jennifer lives in the Boston area.