Represented by Jennifer March Soloway at Andrea Brown Literary
About Me
Jennifer Bower has chased on over-active imagination since the age of three and still believes stuffed animals come to life at night and Jackalopes are real. She grew up on a steady diet of classic cartoons and mid-century picture books, many of which still bear her bite marks. Twenty years after picking up her first crayon she earned a BFA degree and promptly went to work in the financial services industry. (She’s always had a horrible sense of direction.) It wasn’t until as a single parent to a beautifully blended daughter Jennifer realized her inner-child was lost and broken. So, she put her degree to use and started writing and illustrating for children.
In her formative years she rode her bike and played hide-and-seek in the hills, valleys and corn fields of Central Pennsylvania. However, the bulk of her life has been spent south of the Mason-Dixon line where thunderheads bloom on summer afternoons, and you buy bread and milk in bulk when winter weather comes calling. She lives in Charlotte with her dog and two cats who all patiently wait for ‘sister’ to come home from college. She runs on fumes and coffee, sews her knee at college soccer matches, leads the monthly SCBWI-Carolinas QCKidLit critique group, and volunteers at Misty Meadows Mitey Riders therapeutic riding program. She dreams of retiring on a hundred-acre horse farm where she can do nothing but write, daydream, illustrate and knit. Like her character DAUBER, she would rather paint than do her chores.
CLIENTS INCLUDE:
Cantata Learning
Clarion Books - (imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers Division)
Franciscan Media/Servant Publishing
Highlights Magazine for Children
Guide Magazine
In her formative years she rode her bike and played hide-and-seek in the hills, valleys and corn fields of Central Pennsylvania. However, the bulk of her life has been spent south of the Mason-Dixon line where thunderheads bloom on summer afternoons, and you buy bread and milk in bulk when winter weather comes calling. She lives in Charlotte with her dog and two cats who all patiently wait for ‘sister’ to come home from college. She runs on fumes and coffee, sews her knee at college soccer matches, leads the monthly SCBWI-Carolinas QCKidLit critique group, and volunteers at Misty Meadows Mitey Riders therapeutic riding program. She dreams of retiring on a hundred-acre horse farm where she can do nothing but write, daydream, illustrate and knit. Like her character DAUBER, she would rather paint than do her chores.
CLIENTS INCLUDE:
Cantata Learning
Clarion Books - (imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers Division)
Franciscan Media/Servant Publishing
Highlights Magazine for Children
Guide Magazine
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