Jenna Blum

Jenna Blum (born c. 1970) is an American writer who has written three novels, Those Who Save Us, The Stormchasers, and The Lost Family.^[1] In 2013, she was selected by the Modern Scholar series to teach an audio lecture course entitled The Author at Work: The Art of Writing Fiction.^[2] Blum leads novelists as part of the Grub Street writing center, a Boston-based workshop for writers.^[3]

Jenna Blum
Born	Jenna Blum 1970 (age 54–55) U.S.
Occupation	Author, educator
Alma mater	Kenyon College Boston University
Genre	fiction writing
Website
jennablum.com

Biography

Blum grew up with a Jewish father and part-German mother in the United States. She lived in Minnesota for four years. She taught creative writing and communications writing at Boston University and also taught fiction and novel workshops for Grub Street Writers in Boston since 1997.^{[citation needed]} Her first novel Those Who Save Us was published in hardcover by Harcourt in 2004 and in paperback in 2005 and explored how non-Jewish Germans dealt with the Holocaust; according to one account, it shows the “grace and brutality of human interaction in desperate times,” and was described as having “wonderful prose” with “strongly developed characters.”^[4] It was a New York Times best-seller^[3][5] as well as the bestselling book in the Netherlands for one year.^[6]