Jennifer Miller is the author of the novel “The Year of the Gadfly” (Harcourt, 2012) and a book of non-fiction, “Inheriting The Holy Land” (Ballantine, 2005).

Gary Shteyngart says that “Year of the Gadfly” is “Hysterical and moving, Jennifer Miller’s debut fiction fuses ‘Special Topics in Calamity Physics’ and ‘Portnoy’s Complaint’ for girls. This book is an imaginative delight.”

Her journalism has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post Magazine, Christian Science Monitor, Marie Claire, Men’s Health, Smithsonian.com, Salon.com, Guernica.com, the Columbia Journalism Review, The Millions and the Daily Beast. She has taught writing at Columbia, WritopiaLab and the Free Bird Writer’s Workshop.

Jen holds an MFA in fiction-writing and a MS in journalism from Columbia. She is a native of Washington, D.C., and currently lives in Brooklyn.

Visit her online at www.byjennifermiller.com.