Jennifer Sinor

Jennifer Sinor is the author of several books, including, most recently, the novel The Beautiful Plain, which Ladette Randolph describes as "big-hearted" and redemptive. She has written about the relationship between the practice of yoga and the craft of writing in The Yogic Writer. Kirkus calls her essay collection, Sky Songs, "lyrically profound" and applauds how the essays "work to create a tapestry that is both searching and insightful." Jennifer is also the author of Letters Like the Day: On Reading Georgia O'Keeffe, a collection of essays inspired by the letters of the American modernist Georgia O'Keeffe and Ordinary Trauma, a memoir of her military childhood told through linked flash nonfiction. From her very first book--The Extraordinary Work of Ordinary Writing--Jennifer has tried to reveal the extraordinary possibilities that arise in the most ordinary moments of our lives.

Born into a military family, Jennifer has lived all over the United States. While she considers Hawaii her first home, she has come to love northern Utah, where the mountains remind her of the ocean in the way they crest all around her.

Jennifer graduated from the University of Nebraska, the University of Hawaii, and the University of Michigan. Her work has been included in Best American Essays and The Norton Reader. She teaches creative writing at Utah State University where she is a professor of English. The mother of two grown children, Jennifer is married to the poet Michael Sowder.