Jennifer Grosser

Having grown up in a mono-cultural family with a cross-cultural focus, Jennifer Anne Grosser has loved travel and interacting with other cultures from a very early age. As the daughter of pastor/missionaries, she spent six of her earliest years in Honduras, although her own cultural transition there was rather unsuccessful. In college, she traveled to India for five weeks, where she worked mainly with children. After paying off education-incurred debts by working as a nanny in Connecticut, she moved to London, England, to work with refugees and other migrants in the East End.

Jennifer's experiences with refugee families influenced the writing of Trees in the Pavement, her first book. The author hopes Trees will open a window onto a segment of society which, in any country, is often forgotten or viewed with suspicion.

Ms. Grosser has written freelance articles for regional publications, and has had a brief article accepted for print by Pray! magazine. She has also ostensibly had poems printed in various unsung poetry anthologies (although she has never seen them), and once in high school, she tied for first place with a last-minute submission to a science fiction short story contest. She is currently seeking representation for Favored One, a novel about a woman in first century Palestine.

Newly married in 2012, Ms. Grosser lives with her husband, two dogs, a cat and many fish in a cozy little house in New England.