Jennifer Rush: ALTERED

BIO: Jennifer Rush writes young adult and middle grade fiction. She is represented by Joanna Volpe of Nancy Coffey Literary and Media Representation. She lives in Michigan, in the same town where she grew up, right on the shoreline of Lake Michigan. Though she dreams of one day escaping to warmer corners of the earth, she will forever love her hometown and the freshwater that surrounds it. Easily bored, Jennifer has held many jobs, including a laundromat attendant (where she met her husband) and an apartment manager (twice). She wrote a book at each job, but expects nothing will compare to writing a book as a job.

A mother of two, a wife to one, Jennifer currently lives with her family in a noisy little house, but is looking forward to one day having a writer's cottage to call her own, where the carpet will be devoid of smashed fig newtons. Check out her blog or follow her on Twitter.

DEBUT: ALTERED (Little, Brown, Fall 2012)

Seventeen-year-old Anna finds herself on the run from her father's enigmatic Agency, along with the four teen boys the Agency had been experimenting on, in a mystery of erased memories, secret identities, and genetic alteration.

FIVE THINGS SORELY MISSED DURING THE APOCALYPSE:

1. Starbucks Frappuccinos
2. Internet
3. Tosh.0
4. A Hot Shower
5. Taco Night