Jennifer Longo is the 2021 Washington State Book Award recipient and the 2022 All Iowa Reads Book Award winner for her novel WHAT I CARRY. She holds a BA in Acting from San Francisco State University, an MFA in Writing For Theatre from Humboldt State University, and is a two-time Irene Ryan Best Actor Award recipient and a Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Best Full Length Script honoree. Her debut novel, SIX FEET OVER IT (Random House 2014) received starred reviews from Kirkus and The Bulletin, was selected as a 2015 Washington State Book Award finalist, a VOYA Perfect Ten, and an Indies Introduce New Voices title. UP TO THIS POINTE (Random House 2016) was selected as an Indies Next title, 2017 Washington State Book Award finalist, shortlisted for the YALSA 2017 Best Fiction Young Adult list and received starred reviews from The Bulletin and Shelf Awareness. WHAT I CARRY (Random House 2020) is a KIRKUS Best of 2020 YA title, a Chicago Public Library 2020 Best of YA title, YALSA Top Ten Best of 2020 seletion, an Indies Next Winter 2020 title and received starred reviews from Kirkus, Publisher’s Weekly, and BookPage. A California native and San Francisco transplant, Jen lives with her husband and daughter on an island near Seattle, Washington.
Photo Credit: Elanor Longo * Literary Agent: Melissa White Folio Literary Management New York FolioLit.com
