An Evening with Author Jennifer Jabaley!

Jennifer Jabaley spent her childhood in Bridgewater, New Jersey. When deciding which university to attend, she pressed for advice from her guidance counselor who said, “I see you as a southern belle, sitting in a rocking chair and drinking mint juleps.” Jen liked this version of herself and headed to Virginia to attend James Madison University. She was somewhat disappointed to find the dorms did not have rocking chairs, and she was too broke to sip mint juleps. After getting a degree in chemistry, she traveled even farther south to Memphis, Tennessee to attend The Southern College of Optometry. Still, she found no rocking chairs nor mint juleps, but plenty of blues and barbeque. After graduation, she moved to the north Georgia mountains where she finally has rocking chairs on her porch and mint leaves in her garden. She finally feels like a southern belle, but her Jersey roots still won’t allow her to say “Y’all.”

Jen practices optometry with her husband, and in her spare time, she got the crazy idea to start writing. Her first two young adult novels received multiple awards including Georgia Author of the Year, and Pennsylvania Reader’s Choice. is her adult domestic suspense debut. When she’s not checking eyes or writing, she’s playing tennis or reading, or much more likely trying very hard not to be a crazy sports mom while cheering on her two kids.

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Virginia Highland Books, 1034 N Highland Avenue, Atlanta, United States