Jennifer J. Stewart is an American children's book author. She writes humorous books for middle grade (upper elementary school) readers.

She was born in East Patchogue, New York

East Patchogue, New York

East Patchogue is a census-designated place in the Suffolk County town of Brookhaven, New York, United States. The population was 20,824 at the 2000 census. The CDP is a proximate representation of the East Patchogue hamlet used for statistical purposes of the Census Bureau...

, to a librarian mother and a physicist father. When she was four years old, her family moved to Tucson, Arizona

Arizona

Arizona ; is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. It is also part of the western United States and the mountain west. The capital and largest city is Phoenix...

, where she grew up and attended Whitmore Elementary, Townsend Junior High, and Catalina High

Catalina Magnet High School

Catalina High School is a public high school, located on the North Side of Tucson, Arizona. Catalina is a magnet high school in Tucson Unified School District and serves approximately 1300 students in grades 9-12...

. She received an honors degree in English from Wellesley College, followed by an M.B.A.

Master of Business Administration

The Master of Business Administration is a :master's degree in business administration, which attracts people from a wide range of academic disciplines. The MBA designation originated in the United States, emerging from the late 19th century as the country industrialized and companies sought out...

 from the University of Utah

University of Utah

The University of Utah, also known as the U or the U of U, is a public, coeducational research university in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The university was established in 1850 as the University of Deseret by the General Assembly of the provisional State of Deseret, making it Utah's oldest...

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Awards

Her first novel, If That Breathes Fire, We’re Toast! was named to VOYA’s Best Fantasy list and the Oklahoma Sequoyah Book Award master list.

Her third novel, Close Encounters of a Third-World Kind, is loosely based upon her family’s real life adventures working as medical volunteers in the Kingdom of Nepal

Nepal

Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...

. It has been nominated for Connecticut's 2009 Nutmeg Book Award, Maryland's 2007-2008 Black-Eyed Susan Book Award, and Arizona's 2007 Grand Canyon Reader Award. The novel is on recommended reading lists for Kansas

Kansas

Kansas is a US state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south...

, Missouri

Missouri

Missouri is a US state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. With a 2010 population of 5,988,927, Missouri is the 18th most populous state in the nation and the fifth most populous in the Midwest. It...

, and South Carolina

South Carolina

South Carolina is a state in the Deep South of the United States that borders Georgia to the south, North Carolina to the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. Originally part of the Province of Carolina, the Province of South Carolina was one of the 13 colonies that declared independence...

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External links

• Author's web site