Our Team

JENNA BLUM is the cofounder and CEO of A Mighty Blaze and the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of novels THOSE WHO SAVE US, THE STORMCHASERS, and THE LOST FAMILY. Jenna is also the author of novella “The Lucky One” in the anthology GRAND CENTRAL and audiocourse “The Writer At Work: The Art of Writing Fiction.” She is one of Oprah’s Top 30 Women Writers.

Jenna’s first novel, THOSE WHO SAVE US, was a New York Times bestseller, the # 1 bestselling novel in Holland in 2011, and the winner of the 2005 Ribalow Prize, awarded by Hadassah Magazine and adjudged by Elie Wiesel. THE STORMCHASERS was an international bestseller, a Borders Book Club Selection, a feature in French Elle, and a Target Pick. THE LOST FAMILY was a Target Pick and received starred reviews from all four trades: Kirkus, Publisher’s Weekly, Booklist, and Library Journal. Her work has been translated into more than 20 languages.

Jenna is based in Boston, where she has taught advanced novel, writing, and marketing workshops for Grub Street Writers for over 20 years. Jenna earned her B.A. in English at Kenyon College and her M.A. in Creative Writing at Boston University, where she was the fiction editor for AGNI Literary Magazine and taught creative writing and journalism. The daughter of a CBS newswriter and producer, Jenna interviewed Holocaust survivors for the Steven Spielberg Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation from 1993-1997.

Jenna is a professional public speaker, traveling pre-pandemic nationally and internationally to speak at universities, libraries, events, and book clubs. For her first novel THOSE WHO SAVE US, Jenna visited over 800 book clubs in the Boston area alone! She looks forward to reconnecting with audiences in person as well as online and continuing to pioneer digital/ hybrid opportunities for authors via the Blaze.

To learn more about Jenna—and her black Lab Professor Henry Higgins—please follow her on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. You can also visit her at www.jennablum.com

Photo by Jorien DeVries.