Jen Van Meter

Jen Van Meter was born in 1968 in Fresno, California. She began writing comics professionally in 1997, while in the University of Oregon's graduate program in English. She has worked with Oni Press, for whom she wrote several successful tie-ins to the 2000 film The Blair Witch Project, and who have published her Hopeless Savages stories, one of which has been nominated for an Eisner Award and all of which have been selected for recommended reading lists by Young Adult librarians' groups. She has also written short runs and limited series for DC Comics, many of which have been collected in trade format.

She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband, fellow writer Greg Rucka, and their family.