y name is Jenny Han. Han like Han Solo, Han Dynasty, or Hawn, Goldie. I was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia . I have a mom, a dad, a dog named Jack, and a baby sister I used to call Triple-Chin. (She no longer has a triple-chin, but when she did, it was just precious.) I went to college at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and then I moved to New York City for graduate school where I received my MFA in Writing for Children at the New School. I currently live in Brooklyn, New York and work part-time as a school librarian.

My favorite dessert is cold chocolate cake with white icing, preferably Betty Crocker because it is very moist. My favorite book is a tie between To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and the lesser known but equally magnificent I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith. (Please, please read it. It will make you cry it's so good, and then you will want to be my best friend because I told you about it.) If I could be a super-hero, I would be Buffy the Vampire Slayer. If I could be boyfriend-girlfriend with any character from literature, I would pick Mr. Darcy or a young Atticus Finch, when he was in law school, maybe.

I enjoy falling leaves, baking cupcakes, dark and stormy nights, ballroom dancing, and staying in fancy hotels. I have never actually stayed in a fancy hotel, but I imagine I will one day, and I am sure I will enjoy it. Can't you just picture me in a thick white robe, eating a hot fudge sundae on Egyptian cotton sheets? My dream jobs: soap opera writer, hotel reviewer, ice cream tester, celebrity shrink, Santa's helper. And oh, yes! Writing books for children.