Jennifer Black is an American author of paranormal romance novels, urban fantasy, and young adult fantasy novels. She began writing under the pen name Jenna Black in 2006. She published one novel earlier under her other name, Jennifer Barlow,^[1] and at least two short stories before that under her birth name.^[2] Jenna Glass is yet another pen name.^[3]

Jenna Black was raised in Bratt, Florida. She got her BA in physical anthropology and French from Duke University and has remained in the Research Triangle area in the years since. She once aspired to be a primatologist, but ended up writing technical documentation. She attended the Clarion West Writers Workshop in 1989.^[4] Her first mass market paperback, Watchers in the Night (Tor Paranormal Romance), came out in 2006.^[5]

Black is represented by the Irene Goodman Literary Agency and is a member of the online writing blog, Deadline Dames.^[6]