Jennifer A. G. Layte

Jennifer A. G. Layte was four years old when she first told her mother she wanted to write stories. Since then, she has found both more and less traditional ways to do that. She is an author (also writing under the name Jennifer Anne Grosser) and the founder/director of The Pilgrimage—a Jesus-centered online spiritual formation community, created especially to tend to the stories of those who have been hurt by the church or otherwise struggling in their faith--and to assist faith communities in caring for such people better.

Jennifer’s training and certification as an Advanced Practice Board Certified Chaplain, a spiritual director, and an ordained pastor have provided her with unique opportunities to work with diverse (on just about every metric) groups of people. The human stories she has carried and the ways she has found of shepherding people through the difficult parts directly influence her writing. Meanwhile, her formal background in literature and theology gives her imaginative ways of retelling the stories of the Bible and of others, encouraging people to live within their own stories better.

Jennifer and her husband Paul live in New England with two rescue dogs, an impressive garden, and, to their fascination but not always delight, an astonishing array of wildlife.